CONTENTS 



{For Classified Index See Pages 170 to 176) 



CHAPTER I 

 Companionship of Flowers 



Flowers in Early Literature — Plants as Living, Feeling Things 

 — Causes of Success or of Failure. 



CHAPTER II 



Fundamental Requirements of All Plants 



Abundance of Sunlight Essential — Light and Water— Nb 

 Special Needs — ^When Plants Want Water — Good Drainage — 

 Saucers, Trays and Pebbles — Fresh Air and Atmospheric Mois- 

 ture — How to Keep Plants Clean — Success in Any Well-balanced 

 Soil — Constant and Intelligent Care Pays. 



CHAPTER III 

 Foliage Plants for House Decoration- 



The Best Kinds for House Culture — Palms: Kentia Bel- 

 moreana and K. Forsteriana, Areca lutescens (yellow-stemmed). 

 Phoenix Roebelenii, Cocos Weddelliana, Latania borbonica — In- 

 dications of Good Health and Deterioration — Ferns: As Attrac- 

 tive Indoor Plants, The Boston Fern, Natural Abode of Ferns, 

 Responsive to Good Treatment, Summary of Requirements, 

 Other Varieties of Nephrolepis, The Handsome Holly Ferns, 

 The Graceful Maidenhair, Australian Tree Fern, Bird's Nest 

 F^rn, How Ferns are Reproduced — Miscellaneous Foliage Plants: 

 The Rubber Plants, Dracsenas, Aspidistra, Hedera Helix, 

 Asparagus plumosus. Asparagus Sprengeri, Pandanus Veitchii, 

 Araucaria excelsa, Anthericum, Tradescantia — ^Foliage Plants 

 Bear Flowers, Fruit and Seed — ^Variegated and Green Foliage — 

 Fern Spores and Palm SeedlingST-The Prime Object of Growing 

 House Plants. 



CHAPTER IV 

 Flowering Plants for House Decoration 



The Joy of Growing Flowers — Transferring Plants — Flowers, 

 Materialized Sunlight — ^Where to Place Flowering Plants — 

 Geraniums Indoors — Watering-^The Growing Period' — House 

 Gardening in Midwinter — ^The Most Valuable Flowering Plant — 

 Abutilon — Heliotrope — Roses — ^The Beautiful Cyclamen — Car- 

 nations — Primula sinensis — Dutch Bulbs — Other Examples of 

 Stored Up Energy — The Final Disposition. 



