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dark hallway or in the remote corner of a dining-room 

 must be apparent when one realizes that in its native 

 habitat in the tropics it is exposed to the most brilliant 

 and continuous sunlight. When one of these plants 

 has finally succumbed to unnatural conditions in the 

 house, the only method of recuperation is to restore 

 it to the open garden and sunlight, of which more will 



BEGONIA IVIETALLICA 

 An easily grown house plant (see pages 72 and 78) 



