ANTHERICUM ELATIUM VARIEGATUM.
This plant makes one of the best window or room plants. It has fleshy roots, which enable it to withstand with impunity much rough treatment. It is grown for the sake of its foliage, which is long and narrow, and has a white strip running down the centre. The plant sv_nds up flower stem-* which carry small white flowers. If the flower stems are allowed to remain tlie blooms are succeeded by numerous little plantlets. These should be severed from the flower spike when a few inches long, and if inserted into a sandy compost will ] coon make roots and form new plant*, j
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 190, 12 August 1922, Page 20
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107ANTHERICUM ELATIUM VARIEGATUM. Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 190, 12 August 1922, Page 20
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