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Milady's House Plants 



Islands, with its ostrich plume-Iike leaves and glossy 

 dark green color. Equally hardy, but more upright 

 and stately and not so graceful, is its sister variety, 

 Kentia Forsteriana. 



Areca lutescens {yellow-stemmed) 



The most graceful of all. It will not endure 

 quite as rough treatment as the Kentia, but 

 makes up. for this by very rapid growth, so 

 that a plant having met with misfortune will soon 

 produce enough leaves to recover its beauty. While 

 the Kentias grow up from a central single stem, the 

 Arecas throw out an abundance of young shoots, each 



COCOS WEDDELLIANA 

 The most graceful of the smaller palms (see page 35) 



