If your list of New Year’s
resolutions includes such
hardy - annuals as ‘*Stop
Smoking’’, Not More Than
Three © Cups of Coffee A
Day’, or ‘‘Cut Out All
Starches’’, and you happen
to be an indoor gardenef -
here’s an unusual resolution
tailor-made for you.

Offbeat and oddball plants.

- some beautiful, some
interesting for what they do -
ali and
make conversation - pieces.

The Ortho book

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_“*House

Plants’ Indoors/Outdoors’’
suggests many such plants,
gives new ideas for using

horticultural materials and

providing plant care.

The indoor plants we most
often see are foliage plants,

that is, plants that do not.

bear flowers.

s. What makes
the plants

suggested in

‘*House Plants Indoors/Out- |
“so interesting is that.

7 doors’””

many are flowering plants
that will add bright, colorful
touches to your home.

SO TR are

For example, spectacular

flowers and beautiful ‘ vine-:

like foliage of many species
of Clematis can be grown
indoors to provide blankets
of color in almost every hue.

‘It can be grown from seed,
planted in a high humus soil

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and sweetened with lime, or.

started by dividing or taking

- cuttings ° from an ~existing
~ plant. . .

Keep the soii eveniy moist;
place the plant in full sun,.

but. keep the roots cool by

: : mulching the top of the pot or

by placing the pot within a.
larger one and layering the
space between them with
florist’s moss.

The gnarled, twisted root.
of commercial ginger may
seem an unlikely source of

color and beauty but,

-**House Plants Indoors/Out-.

doors’’ points out, scented,
glossy green or variegated
‘foliage with bright red spiked
‘flowers resembling — pine
cones will be your reward for
cultivating this aromatic
tropical herb. The botanical
name of commercial ginger
root is Zingiber.

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Ginger comes in many
species and varieties, each of
which produces its

age. You can therefore start

as many of these as you wish.

The variety known as
Amonum Cardamon produc-
es cone-like yellow flower
spikes among dark green
lance-shaped leaves. The

Costus gingers- have leaves.

growing like spiral staircases
on the stems and. produce
brilliant orange flowers with.
ragged petals. For large
spikes of concave orange
bracts from which emerge.
shy . yeliow bdiooms,  iry
Curcuma Roscoena.

own |
‘distinctive blooms and _ foli-

Most gingers are, says this
book, grown from tubers or

corms and need moisture |

during the growing season, .
drying off during — their
dormant period. The Amo-
num variety should be
planted i in an all-purpose soil
mix; the Costus and Cur-
cuma in a high-humus. mix.

All thrive in semi-sunny and
semi-shady locations at aver-
age house temperature in
eveniy moisi soi. Amonum
and Costus require a moder-
ately humid environment,
while Curcuma should be
kept in very moist surround- .

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