THE CARE OF PALMS 



Many persons keep their Palms standing in 

 corners of the room for days at a time, or in 

 other places some distance from the light. If 

 this is done, souring of the soil is pretty sure 

 to result, because absence of good light inter- 

 feres with evaporation. If you would use 

 Palms for decorative purposes away from the 

 window, have two or three of them and let them 

 take turns doing decorative duty. Change 

 them so often that they are never away from 

 the light for more than two days at a time. 



This leads up to the subject of exposure. 

 Some persons will tell you never to let the sun- 

 shine touch your Palm. Others will tell you 

 to keep it always in shade, the more the better. 

 The fact is, sunshine is not necessary to the 

 welfare of the Palm, but morning sunshine will 

 not harm it in the least, and good light it must 

 have in reasonable quantity if you expect it to 

 have a good color. Strong shade is not desir- 

 able. The shade that suits the Palm might be 

 defined as simply the absence of sunshine. 

 Palms do well in east windows, but in south 

 ones they should be kept back from the glass, 

 for the heat on a sunny winter's day will be too 

 strong for them. 



How often shall we water the Palms ? That 



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