XIV 



ETEEGREENS AND FERNS FOR INDOORS 



WHILE nearly all of the plants in 

 the window-garden retain their fo- 

 liage, in effect, the year round, a 

 certain number of them actually do, and this 

 class of Evergreen houseplants deserves con- 

 sideration by itself, as indoor Evergreens are 

 not so widely known as they should be, nor are 

 they as often found among houseplants as 

 they deserve to be. Aside from their place 

 near flowering window-plants, indoor Ever- 

 greens lend themselves to table decoration, and 

 being especially suitable plants for hall and 

 stairway, are most useful in arranging decora- 

 tive effects when the house is being made ready 

 for some festal occasion. The most interesting 

 Evergreens of the indoor class are, perhaps, 

 the Araucarias, the most easily obtainable spe- 

 cies being Araucaria excelsa, better known by 

 its common name, the Norfolk Island Pine. 



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