. The Book of gardening; a handbook of horticulture. Gardening; Horticulture. ON ROOM PLANTS. 771 Variegated plants are always appreciated, especially if they are sufficiently robust to withstand the winter in an ordinary living- room. For this reason Chlorophytum datum variegatum (better known perhaps as Anthericum variegatum and Phalangium argenteo- lineare) must not be forgotten. It is a near relative of the St. Bruno and the St. Bernard Lilies. The grass-like foliage is striped and margined with white, and the habit of the plant is graceful in the extreme. It may readily be grown in a wind
. The Book of gardening; a handbook of horticulture. Gardening; Horticulture. ON ROOM PLANTS. 771 Variegated plants are always appreciated, especially if they are sufficiently robust to withstand the winter in an ordinary living- room. For this reason Chlorophytum datum variegatum (better known perhaps as Anthericum variegatum and Phalangium argenteo- lineare) must not be forgotten. It is a near relative of the St. Bruno and the St. Bernard Lilies. The grass-like foliage is striped and margined with white, and the habit of the plant is graceful in the extreme. It may readily be grown in a window, if during very severe weather it is removed at night out of the reach of frost. The drainage must be good, as • during the growing season plenty of water is necessary ; but in winter it must be kept upon the dry side. Propagated readily by division in spring. Popular subjects with those who make room plants a speci- ality are Cyperus alternifolius, and its variegated form. They are very decorative, too, for the dinner- table. The leaves are long and narrow, and arranged in the form of an umbel, which gives the plants an uncommon ap- pearance. They look like very graceful Palms ; indeed " by some they are popu- larly known as Um- brella Palms. They are natives of Aus- tralia and about 2ft. in height; they are shade-lovers. Unfor- tunately they are not as hardy as some of the subjects already enumerated. It is scarcely amongst a genus of stove plants that one would look generally for a good room or window subject, yet it has already been shown that in Ficus elastica we have a plant sufficiently accommodating to be1 kept in good health in our rooms, if but a little care is exercised. And so it is with several "of the Screw Pines {Pandanus), and particularly so with P. Candelabrum variegatus, whose long, narrow, gracefully 3 D 2. Fig. 511.—Araucaria Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced
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