DECORATIVE PLANTS 



to frost. For the decoration of the veranda, 

 in summer, it is simply superb, its tropical 

 appearance making it very attractive and 

 strikingly effective. In winter it can be made 

 use of in the hall. It is of the easiest culture. 

 It readily adapts itself to living-room condi- 

 tions. No insect ever attacks it, so far as my 

 experience with it goes, and it is subject to no 

 disease. It grows well in any soil in which 

 loam is the principal ingredient. Not a great 

 deal of water is required. Nor is it exacting 

 as to light. 



All the plants of which mention has been 

 made in this chapter will afford the home gar- 

 dener great pleasure, if she is willing to give 

 them the care necessary to bring them to full 

 development. They make it possible to have 

 variety, where there has been but little because 

 of the impression that there was not much 

 use in the amateur's attempting to grow any- 

 thing but the Palm and a Fern or two. 



