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or Pompone Chrysanthemums. Later in the winter season, when flo\Ters bocomn 
rare, 3-011 can have plants with large and beautiful foliage, whose form and lively 
green is very agreeable to the eye. Are you an admirer of Cactus,^ You find 
in November a certain species of Cactus flowering; the Epiphylliim truncatum. 
It is a matter of importance to arrange plants that every shape and part maybe 
seen ; to make the composition light and graceful by putting ferns and grass-liko 
plants between others 
with large leaves, for 
instance : Ficns elas- 
tica, F. Cooperi, F. 
australis, Abutilon 
Thomsonii, A r a 1 i a 
Sieboldii, A. lepto- 
phylla, A. papyrifera, 
Camellias and Azaleas 
with Cyperus alterni- 
folius, Panicum plica- 
tum, Phomium te- 
nax, Polypodium au- 
reum, Dicksonia um- 
b r s i a, Nephrol epis 
exaltata, Ophiopogon 
saburan, Japonic ura 
and spicatum, Isole- 
pis pygmpca, Pteris 
arguta, hastata and 
serriilata, for one 
large group. Put fol- 
lowing plants in the 
window : Ardisia cre- 
nulata, with red ber- 
ries in the centre and 
for each side ; Citrus 
Sinensis, with small 
gold yellow oranges, 
Daphne odorata, Olea 
fragrans, Nardosmia 
fragrans (TussilagO,) Hg. Ifi. Ornamental Flower Stnnd. 
Convallaria majalis, Gardenia citriodora, blue Cinneraria, Rosa Lawrencean^ 
Bouwardia jasminiflora and splendida, Selaginella urabrosia, Eranthemuin 
tuberculatum, Sanchezia nobilis, Eucharis Amazonica, Vallota purpurea, 
Sprekelia lutea, Ornilhogalum aurcum and Adiantum capiliua Veneris. 
It will be nice to group in a flower stand some smaller plants round a big 
.>ne. Take for instance for the centre : Curculigo recvrY«.t«» ^-vspna cc 
