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Milady's House Plants 



be said in another chapter. No other house plant 

 has been subjected to so much quackery in the way 

 of plant food and medicine as this old friend. These 

 range all the way from painting the leaves with oil, 

 to make them appear healthy at any rate, to inject- 

 ing raw oysters into the soil in order to try what a 



DRACiENA MASSANGEANA 



Not quite so hardy or vigorous as the Aspidistra, but one of the iiest of the 



broad leaved Dracaenas (see page 56) 



