264 THE PLANT DECORATION OF APARTMENTS. 



ture, accustomed to withstand the fierce heats of hot 

 countries, we shall find that the dry and dusty air of a 

 living room is not at all injurious to them, and that it is 

 quite easy to keep them in health for months and even for 

 years in the same apartments. 



Fig. 102. 



Dracaena terminalis. 



They would speak to us of many distant lands ; interest 

 us by their growth under our care ; teach us the wonderful 

 variety and riches of the vegetable kingdom, and prove them- 

 selves quiet, unobtrusive friends. The variety of form and 

 grace of outline which many of these plants possess, may to 

 some extent be judgedof bythe illustrations scattered through 



