82 A LITTLE GARDEN THE YEAR ROUND 



keeping with harmony in decoration than a 

 window full to overflowing of house plants of 

 all descriptions, set in nondescript receptacles. 

 The modern house decorator has learned to 

 avoid any such atrocious arrangements, and 

 seeks to select plants for indoors with care- 

 ful thought as to the details of foliage, flower, 

 contrast and suitability. For instance, one 

 would not place fine-leaved and coarse-leaved 

 plants in close proximity where the effect of 

 contrast was not desired, nor would one place 

 a delicately foliated plant in a room so stern 

 and formal that the plant might seem hke 

 a stranded exotic. Again, scarlet-flowered 

 plants would hardly be in keeping with a room 

 decorated with crimson wall paper or hang- 

 ings! nor would it be well to place plants, such 

 as the Tuberose or the Oleander, whose flowers 

 are strongly scented, in a very small room, as 

 their fragrance is oppressive in the confined 

 atmosphere of a small space. Musk is so of- 

 fensive to many persons that, lovely little plant 

 that it is, it would be well perhaps to omit it 

 from the indoor garden list. On the other 

 hand, there are plants whose flowers, though 

 they exhale a pronounced fragrance, are not 



