HOUSE AND GARDEN 
126 
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Foliage Plants Everyone May Grow. 
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causes the leaves to turn yellow and droop. 
As the rubber is more difficult to propa¬ 
gate than most house plants, and since 
specimens will not get too large for sev¬ 
eral years, it will be best to get plants from 
the florist’s. It frequently happens, how¬ 
ever, that an old plant which has been 
grown up to a single stem becomes un¬ 
wieldy and bare at the bottom. In such 
cases the upper part may be removed by 
‘'topping” and the main trunk cut back 
to within six to eighteen inches of the pot 
or tub, and water partly withheld until 
new growth starts. The old stem may 
thus be transformed into a low bush plant 
and frequently it makes a very handsome 
specimen. The topping is performed by 
making a deep upward slanting cut with 
a sharp knife, at the point you want in 
the pot for your new plant. In the cut 
stuff a little sphagnum moss; remove this 
after a few days and wash the cut out 
with warm water, removing the congealed 
sap. Insert fresh moss, and with strips of 
soft cloth tie a good handful over the 
wound. Keep this moist constantly until 
the roots show through the moss, which 
may be several weeks. Then pot in moist 
earth, not wet, and syringe daily, but do 
not water the pots for two or three days. 
Sometimes pots cut in halves and the bot¬ 
toms partly removed are used to hold the 
moss in place. August is a good time to 
propagate. 
Ficus elastica is the common rubber 
plant. The “fiddle-leaved” rubber plant 
( F. pandurata ) is another variety now 
largely grown. It differs from the former 
in having very broad, blunt leaves, shaped 
like the head of a fiddle, which are marked 
by the whitish veins. Two other beautiful 
plants are F. Cooperia, having large 
leaves with red midribs, and F. Parcelli, 
with leaves marbled with white. They 
should be given a higher temperature than 
F. elastica. 
To add a touch of color to the winter 
garden, there are two excellent plants 
which, while not of importance primarily 
for their foliage, still deserve a place in 
every collection. The first is the Ardisia 
—the best red-berried plant for the house. 
It is a dwarf, with very beautiful dark 
green foliage. While kept healthy it will 
be laden constantly with its attractive 
clusters of berries, one crop lasting over to 
the next. Seedlings make the best plants, 
and are readily grown. Sow in January 
to April, and plants will flower within a 
year and thereafter be perpetually dec¬ 
orated. Old plants can be topped and 
make fine specimens. By all means give 
the Ardisia a place in your collection. 
The second is the decorative pepper. 
Some of the peppers make very attractive 
pot plants on account of their bright fruit, 
which is very pretty in all stages of growth 
from the new green pods, through yellow 
to bright red. Buy new plants or start 
from seed in spring. They are easily 
grown if kept on the warm side of the 
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