
TROPICAL PLANTS FOR YOUR HOME 
from our home where the growing of plants 
1s an expression of Art 
CATALOGUE NO. 3 1950 
Featuring Bromeliads 
and other plant gems from the collection of 
Mulford B. Foster 718 Magnolia Avenue 
Orlando, Florida 
There is something utterly fascinating about bromeliads, but few 
people in this country are familiar with this decorative group of 
plants which has so few competitors. They can be an outstanding 
adornment to the. home or warm climate garden. In Europe for near- 
ly a century bromeliads have been and still are classed among the 
finest and most desirable decorative plants. 
There are three distinctive types of bromeliads, terrestrial, sax- 
icolous (on rocks) and epiphytic (on trees). However, the bromeliads 
which are the most suitable as house plants are the epiphytic types 
(air plants) which, out in the jungle survive by clinging firmly to 
the rough bark of trees, but without deriving any nourishment from 
their host. These make the adjustment to houséhold conditions re- 
markably well. They are appealingly versatile in leaf and flower 
color, in the manner in which they bloom, how they hold their water 
and how they propagate. 
