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Show Flowers for the Indoors. In choosing plants for the house one should remember that no plant will live long without light few will thrive without more or less sunlight. The green-and-w hite Aspidastra is the hardiest hard-iest in this respect Plants used foi interior decoration must be often shifted, set in light, fertilized and bathed till thrifty, while others in good condition take their places. Weekly changes will maintain a proper effect. Palma and ferns are most satisfactory for such uses; flowering things get ragged very quickly. quick-ly. Begonias carefully tended and not allowed to dry out or get hot make a brave showing. So do wax-leafed woody things dwarf orange and lemon lem-on trees, rubber trees, dwarf evergreens ever-greens and box trees. Harper'i Household Handbook. |