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the street. The specimen figured was sketched from before the 

 window of a restaurant in the Champs Elysees, where it has not 

 only grown for years but flowered vigorously. It is quite a hardy 

 plant, but no tropical one is more beautiful in form or colour of 

 foliage. It is the most valuable of large-leaved room-plants, and 

 far more so than the long popular Ficus elastica, because it is 

 hardy and the easiest of culture in a cool room. It will be found 

 perfectly at home in cool rooms and halls where no artificial heat 

 is applied. The plant figured grows in a wooden box in the 

 window. Everything proved to do well indoors without the 

 protection of a case is a gain to those who wish to grow plants in 

 -ooms. 





Acanthus lati/olitts in ITinJow in Paris. 



