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masses of flower without a stake or a stalk to 
be seen. Pea-sticks of birch, instead of hazel, 
are useful for staking, bamboo of all sizes, 
and ordinary bavins cut in half are good for 
stouter work. 
This process of tying-out and training can- 
not be got through in the beginning and then 
left (unless where the wire-netting rings have 
been used) ; but again and again, in the course 
of their growth, must this be gone over, and 
sometimes ties undone and retied in fresh 
directions. 
It is really amazing to note the difference 
that good or bad staking makes. It is parti- 
cularly noticeable in the case of Artemisia 
lactifiora y which, when bunched up together, 
makes no effect, but when carefully tied out 
to invisible supports of bamboo, does not look 
like the same plant, and shows forth the full 
grace of its feathery, cream-coloured plumes. 
