Show FUN WITH The is a fairly well known house plant which deserves to be better known kno because it is content with average care and also I because its form Corm Is most attractive I In case you have seen this plant in in florists' florists windows without knowing it Is name let me explain that it has I leaves caves like rather wide grass all growing up a central stem and falling talling fall fall- ing ng gracefully in man man- ner ncr Leaves ma may be plain green or variegated Personally In my many adventures hires tures with house plants lan lants ts I h have ve the tile most excitement and pleasure from Crom making two or three or many plants where I had but one before I do this by propagating them either by inserting cuttings in sand saud sandor saudor or letting flowers ripen seeds and sowing them or by leaf leat cuttings and so 80 on Now if iC you have a there are arc all sorts of or ways in n which you may get several new plants plan from Crom your one one ot of you OU arc are brave enough to try It takes courage courage courage cour cour- age or rashness I dont don't know which it t is to begin butchering a that hat you have cared lovingly for tor for many years ears Usually old become leggy in time as they lose their lower ower leaves and show a bare expanse cx- cx anse of long not pretty stem below below be- be low ow the foliage Collage at the upper part of the he plant You may remedy this at the same time that you provide yourself with the new ew plants And here is the formula Just below lh the lower leaves leave re remove remove remove re- re move carefully with a sharp knife a ring of or bark about a half halt Inch long ong The cut must not be deep but ut only enough to lo get to the white Inner portion of stem Now around this his ringed portion tio tie a thick pad of moss and keep the moss moist by either spraying with tepid water or pouring it carefully on with a teaspoon Never use Ice Ico cold water You will be surprised to find that before beCore long roots form just above where you cut tho the stem and when these hese have become about an inch inchong long ong the moss may lay be removed the theop top op of the cut away awny from the he base leaving the new roots on the he upper tipper part of course and this new slew plant potted Now there is left a sorry looking thing the bare stem stern of the old plant But talc take heart h for young oung side ide shoots will develop which when a couple of inches or so 80 In length ma may be detached from the parent larent and rooted in sand The first side shoots will appear close to o the top of oC the old bId stem raJ Taking in them hem away encourages more side shoots hoots to develop a little lower down and these theM ma- ma may mabe be taken talen off oU and rooted in their turn when more new ones will come still farther Carther below below be- be low ow and so on Its It's practically perpetual perpetual perpetual per per- motion Try fry this with your some of these dull winter da days s 's when life doesn't seem worth living because you cant can't got get ct out and mow the tho lawn or r spray the roses and see If I haven't given you ou a new interest in existence |