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select mixed groups, and in small gardens as isolated specimens 

 amongst low bedding plants. It requires stove treatment, and is 

 propagated from cuttings. In all cases it is better to use plants 

 with single stems. It is especially valuable in consequence of doing 

 perfectly well in the dry air of inhabited rooms, and this ill 



FIG. 5. Ficus elastica. 



enable many to enjoy a fine-leaved plant in the flower garden who 

 have not a glass house of any kind on their premises. 



MUSA ENSETE. The noblest of all the plants yet used in the 

 flower garden is Musa Ensete the great Abyssinian Banana, dis- 

 covered by Bruce. The fruit of this kind is not edible, unlike that 

 of the Banana and Plantain (Musa paradisiaca and sapientum), but 



