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Chu-giku as well as Ito-giku, and the process of production is very 

 similar to the one described under "Binsashi" growing, save that it 

 requires a slightly different method of "stopping," as one group of these 

 plants by this method has to have twenty-six flowers in all. 



Hohi-ZukurL—ln this method the leading stem of the plant is supported 

 by a string instead of by bamboo sticks, so that the plant appears as 

 if it had no support. Each plant should have seven branches and seven 

 flowers, the six side branches being trained to be lower than the stem. 



