EVERGREENS AND FERNS FOR INDOORS 103 



The Kennedya is a lovely and graceful twin- 

 ing indoor Evergreen, and is not as often met 

 with in the window-garden as it deserves to be. 

 The shoots should be kept well trained to the 

 wall, or against a frame. Give it plenty of 

 water. Kennedya Marrattae is the scarlet va- 

 riety, while the blossoms of the K. monophylla 

 are rich purple. There is not a finer climber 

 for the window-garden. 



Although the varieties of indoor Evergreens 

 here mentioned by no means exhaust the list 

 of those that are available for house culture, 

 those described are especially worthy the at- 

 tention of every one who has a window-garden 

 and loves houseplants, and who, though ac- 

 quainted with some of the more common va- 

 rieties of these plants, may not have known 

 that they come under the head of true Ever- 

 greens, which fact may, perhaps, lead the ama- 

 teur indoor gardener to cultivate a real and 

 lasting interest in them. 



FERNS 



Where one intends to place Ferns in an un- 

 heated conservatory, the following species are 



