Foliage Plants for House Decoration 45 



The Handsome Holly Ferns 



The next in value to the sword fern family as 

 house plants are the two varieties of Cyrtomium, or 

 Holly ferns, the newer and more decorative form, the 

 Rochfordianum, being a very handsome plant indeed. 

 It is distinguished from the old-fashioned Holly fern 

 by having notched or fringed edges to the leaves or 

 pinnae, as the sub-divisions of fern fronds are called. 

 Both these varieties are extremely hardy and, al- 

 though usually seen as small plants in fern dishes. 



PLATYCERIUM, STAd'S HORN FERN 



An interesting plant showing the division of functions. The broad, upright 



fronds are spore bearing, while the sterile fronds cling closely to the object on 



which the plant is growing, such as the trunk of a tree, and furnish a home for 



tie young plants (see page 64) 



