TABLE DECORATION 



Well-grown specimens of the Otaheite 

 Orange in fruit are very pleasing table orna- 

 ments, and as the fruit hangs on for a long 

 time, a plant can be used indefinitely. The 

 Jerusalem Cherry, now so extensively sold at 

 holiday-time, is another excellent plant for use 

 on the table when well set with berries. So is 

 Ardisia crenulata, with its thick, dark-green 

 foliage and clusters of brilliant scarlet fruit. 

 All three plants named in this paragraph are 

 easily cared for by the amateur, in fact, they 

 require no special care, and the money one 

 puts into them is well invested if you want 

 something to depend on for the ornamentation 

 of the table during the greater part of the sea- 

 son. They will furnish an agreeable variety 

 in connection with foliage plants, and will do 

 effective duty in the window when not needed 

 on the table. 



This article would not be complete if it 

 failed to make mention of the Araucaria, or 

 Norfolk Island Pine. It is not a new plant by 

 any means, but a plant which is just coming 

 into a well-deserved popularity. It has not 

 been grown much, heretofore, outside the 

 green-houses, because the impression has pre- 

 vailed that it was not adapted to general cul- 



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