FOREWORD

by   DR.   A.   J.   WILLIS

Lecturer in Botany, University of Bristol

A great variety of house-plants, grown for the beauty both of their flowers and of their foliage, is now available from nursery­men. All too often the success of these plants in rooms is unnecessarily short-lived, largely because the treatment they receive is not suitable. However, with appropriate culture and care and a knowledge of their various requirements, the plants may be readily grown successfully indoors.

In this book many popular, as well as some lesser-known, house-plants of a wide range of form and with different cultural needs are described. Full details of the requirements and ap­propriate treatment of these plants are given by the author who has an extensive first-hand knowledge of them and who has spent a lifetime tending and propagating them. I can commend this informative volume to all who wish to enjoy the lasting beauty of room-plants and to achieve and maintain a colourful display

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