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FRANCISCEA HYDRANGEjEFORMJS. 
It may be propagated similarly, and have the same treatment under cultivation, 
as other members of the genus, with the exception that its more robust nature will 
require more liberal management. 
This is one of the great number of plants that can be grown (if properly 
managed and trained) to any, the most engaging shape which most sets off its 
ornamental character, without the aid of that artificial support which too frequently, 
by being injudiciously and untastefully employed, detracts from the appearance of 
many a fine plant. It may be thought we should have chosen a less robust subject, 
one more evidently requiring the kind of aid to which we allude, to make such a 
remark upon ; but we would remind those who think so, that the less any plant 
requires artificially supporting, the more insufferable is the appearance of such 
support when improperly, or, it may be, at all employed. 
Oar drawing of this fine plant was permitted to be taken at Kew. 
