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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
magnificent trusses cannot fail to arrest attention in September. 
Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora is weU grown at Chiswick, and some 
grown together, can scarcely be lacking in effectiveness. Cuttings of 
half-ripened wood strike readily in sandy soil under handlights, and 
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Fig. 30.—HYDRANGEA TANICULATA GRANDIFLORA. 
Ifine trusses were exhibited last week in the hall at Westminster. One 
of them, much reduced, is shown in the engraving, and it will be con¬ 
ceded that a number of such trusses on a plant, or a number of plants 
well grown plants are attractive in pots early in the season, but the use¬ 
fulness of this Hydrangea grown and treated as a hardy herbaceous 
plant is now more particularly alluded to. 
