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stock. A well filled palm house, no matter how small, always creates 

 a good impression on the visitor and is a thing for the owner to be 

 proud of. The little florist and the beginner don't always realize 

 nor appreciate this fact, yet, after all, it isn't the grand structure 

 you possess in the way of a greenhouse, but what you have in it 

 that counts. You can make a plain looking interior of a palm or 

 show house look good with a stock of Kentias, but without them, 

 no matter what else you have in the house, things are not complete. 

 I suggest to every florist who retails stock that he invest lib- 

 erally in a nice lot of small and large Kentias and that when he 

 gets them, he take care of the plants. Not only that, but let him 

 make the best use of them in the decorating of his establishment. 

 It pays. 



KERRIA JAPONICA 



You should carry a few Kerrias in your assortment of shrubs. 

 The double form is the best, flowering practically all Summer and 



it is good not only for 

 single specimen plants 

 but also in hedges. 



For Winter effects 

 also the Kerrias are de- 

 sirable on account of 

 the bright green color 

 of their branches. You 

 should consider them 

 whenever a customer 

 wants anything of that 

 kind and there are 

 plenty who do. Take 

 the red and yellow 

 twigged Dogwood, the 

 brown barked Philadel- 

 phus, the gray colored 

 branches of the upright 

 Honeysuckle, and the 

 Kerrias to furnish the 

 green, and you have 

 quite a combination in 

 these few alone. 



For a hedge, you 

 can clip or prune the 



Kerrias as formally as 

 Fig. 194. SOME PALMS IN THE I^AST. lo what T- j 



size Kentias will grow outside of Florida and Gali- Boxwood or Privet and 

 fornia is well shown here. Compare the size of the j n time obtain a dense 

 tubs with our friend G. Thommen of Boston, stand- 

 ing by them growth. 



