Foliage Plants for House Decoration 35 



Cocos Weddelliana 



This is the pretty little palm which is used so 

 much by florists as a center plant in fern dishes. It 

 is worthy of a much more es^tended use than this and 

 may be easily grown year after year until it attains 

 a height of two or three feet. Most of the members 

 of this family are large, coarse-growing trees, one of 

 them yielding the edible cocoanut. They have no 

 value whatever as house plants. 



Latania lorhonica 



Mention may be made of the Borbon palm, 

 Latania borbonica, which many years ago in the 



PLANT BRACKET 



A practical, ornamental and inexpensive plant bracket of bent iron, 



holding any pot up to 7 in. size (see page 58) 



