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treatment in winter is required, and in summer rich ligM 

 soilj a warm position, and perfect shelter. S. marginatum, 

 planted in a very dwarf and young state, furnishes a most dis- 



■ tinct and charming effect : it should be planted rather thinly, 

 ^ so that the leaves of one plant may not brush against those 

 i of another. If some very dwarf plants are used as a 



■ groundwork so much the better, but the downy and silvery 

 , leaves of this plant are sure to please without this aid. It 

 f is very much better when thus grown than when permitted 



to assume the bush form. All the other kinds named are 

 suitable for association with the larger leaved plants, though 

 \ they do not attain such height and vigorous development as 



[ those of the first rank, like the Eicinus. 



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Fig. 74. 



Uhdea bipinnatifida. 



Uhdea bipinnatifida. — This is one of the most useful 

 plants in its class, producing a rich mass of handsome 

 leaves, with somewhat the aspect of those of the great cow- 



