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THE GARDENERS MONTHLY 



[March, 



grouped around them. But if a few palms or | from Mr. William Bull's excellent catalogue, and 

 ferns be introduced into the company, the re- 1 which will make our meaning plain, 

 suit is very diilercnt, as the beauty of the Be- 1 There was a time when these plants were^very 

 gonias is heightened, and the foliage plants are I expensive, especially to Americans, and few 



CHAMJEDOREA FORMOSA. 



still more brightened. For the purpose of com- 

 parison, as the reader goes along, we give an 

 illustration of one of the pinnated South Ameri- 

 can Palms, Chameedorea foimosa, which we take 



would think of them for window or room deco- 

 ration ; but thanks to the efforts of the many ex- 

 cellent florists of Boston, New York, Philadel- 

 phia and Baltimore principally, and of Mr. Geo. 



