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orange-scarlet, gracefully drooping flowers make it one of the 

 handsomest of winter-flowering plants. Palms, Ficus and 

 Ferns, with their deep green foliage, and Eucharis Amazonica, 

 with spikes of star-shaped flowers of purest white, are all de- 

 sirable for planting out in the greenhouse ; so is the useful 

 and gorgeous Poinsettia pulcherrima, which, planted out, is 

 equally as surprising as Euphorbia. Its enormous bracts of 

 brilliant color are marvelous, and it is most useful as a pot- 

 plant. Grown as dwarf plants, from nine inches to two feet 

 high, in six-inch pots, it will produce bracts twelve inches in 



Antigonon leptopus, with its long racemes of beautiful rose 

 colored flowers. On the benches stock plants of tender varieties 

 for summer bedding can be safely kept, and though it is get- 

 ting late for such plants as Streptocarpus, Gesnerias and Achi- 

 menes, they yet make a very effective display. On wires 

 strung from the rafters, as well as in pots, Cattleyas of sorts 

 will grow and flower satisfactorily ; the house will be found 

 suitable for Cattleyas the year round, with slight shading dur- 

 ing very hot weather. C. Percivaliana, C. Trianae, C. Men 

 delii and C. Mossise are unequaled for winter and early sprin 



Fig. 4. — The Condit Chestnut, Llewellyn Park, New Jersey. — See page 12. 



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diameter. These plants are very useful for parlor decoration, 

 and are in demand at Christmas-time for church and other 

 decorations. 



A beautiful tropical feature in a house of this description 

 is now provided by two fine specimens of Musa Cavendishii, 

 each about twelve feet high, with massive trunks and superb 

 foliage and a huge cluster of more than two hundred fruits. 

 These specimens have only been planted out a little more than 

 six months and the growth has been surprising. As a summer 

 climber, Allamanda Hendersoni is quite at home here ; also, 



flowering ; C. Percivaliana is at its best during the holidays. 

 Several other varieties succeed admirably in the same housf , 

 as do Dendrobiums, Odontoglossums and Cypripedium in- 

 signe, which blooms during the holidays and lasts for several 

 weeks. Ccelogyne cristata blooms later on. 



Epiphyllum truncatum, commonly called Crab's-claw Cactus, 

 and its varieties are worthy of extended cultivation, bloom- 

 ing as they do in the depth of winter and being very easily 

 grown. At the same time Callas, Bermuda Lilies, Roman Hya- 

 cinths and Paper-white Narcissus are also in flower. If a 



