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SOME GOOD DECORATIVE 

 PLANTS 



ERSONS get into ruts in 

 their selection of plants for 

 decorative purposes, as 

 they do about most other 

 things. In nearly every 

 home, at the present time, 

 where any plants are 



grown, we find the Palm. But if we ask the 

 owner of that home why she does not grow 

 the Aspidistra, the Araucaria, the Pandanus, 

 or the Agave, the chances are that she will tell 

 us that she does not know much about these 

 plants. She has confined her attention to the 

 Palm because it is popular and ornamental, 

 when well grown, and is supposed to be better 

 adapted to amateur culture than anything 

 else in decorative-plants. 



Now the fact is, there are other plants of a 

 decorative character really much easier to grow, 

 and grow well, than the Palm. And some 



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