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Milady's House Plants 



toniensis have appeared in the plant market during 

 the last ten or fifteen years which are closely related 

 to the Boston Fern and require the same treatment. 

 Some of these are quite different in appearance, being 

 finely divided and crested so as to resemble moss; 

 nearly all are pretty and interesting and fit into a 

 variety of positions. A few of the best are as follows: 

 Roosevelt, a noble variety with long, wavy fronds; 

 Teddy Jr., a dwarf form of the ordinary sword fern, 

 very hardy and useful for a position limited in size; 

 Whitmanii, a cut-leaved, moderately crested variety; 

 Schmidtii, a dehcate, finely crested kind, called, with 

 several others of similar form, the "Lace Fern." 



Holly Fern in 2J^ in. pot, and the same variety grown on for a year into a nice window 

 fern in 5 in. pot (see page 43) 



