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or Pompone Chrysanthemums. Later in the winter season, when flovrers become 

 rare, you can have plants with large and beautiful foliage, whose form and lively 

 green is very agreeable to the eye. Are you an admirer of Cactus.? You find 

 in November a certain species of Cactus flowering ; the Epiphyllum truncatum. 

 It is a matter of importance to arrange plants that every shape and part may be 

 seen ; to make the composition light and graceful by putting ferns and grass-like 

 plants between others 

 with large leaves, for 

 instance : Ficus elas- 

 tica, F. Cooperi, F. 

 australis, Abutilon 

 Thomsonii, A r a 1 i a 

 Sieboldii, A. lepto- 

 phylla, A. papyrifera. 

 Camellias and Azaleas 

 with Cyperus alterni- 

 folius, Panicum plica- 

 tum, Phorimum te- 

 nax, Polypodium au- 

 reum, Dicksonia um- 

 b r o s i a, Nephrol epis 

 exaltata, Ophiopogon 

 saburan, japonicum 

 and spicatum, Isole- 

 pis pygmaea, Pteris 

 arguta, hastata and 

 serrulata, for one 

 large group. Put fol- 

 lowing plants in the 

 window : Ardisia cre- 

 nulata, with red ber- 

 ries in the centre and 

 for each side ; Citrus 

 sinensis, with small 

 gold yellow oranges, 

 Daphne odorata, Olea 

 fragrans, Nardosmia 



fragrans (TuSSilagO,) Hg. le. Omameutal Flower stand. 



Convallaria majalis. Gardenia citriodora, blue Cinneraria, Rosa Lawrenceana, 

 Bouwardia jasminiflora and splendida, Selaginella umbrosia, Eranthemum 

 tuberculatum, Sanchezia nobilis, Eucharis amazonica, Vallota purpurea, 

 Spreckelia lutea, Ornithogalum aureum and Adiantum Capillus, Veneris. 



It will be nice to group in a flower stand some smaller plants round a big 

 one. Take for instance for the centre : Curculigo recurvata, Dracaena con- 



