Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1913 — JUST AS GOOD AS THE' FERN [ARTICLE]

JUST AS GOOD AS THE' FERN

Flowering Cyclamen Would Be Change in and Is Equally to Be Depended Upon. The ever present fern dish as a centerpiece for the dinner table has become almost as much a part of the service as the knives and forks or as cereal for breakfast In the American household, and when one ventures to suggest that change would be quite cheering to the spirits as well as the eye, every one says: "But there’s no other plant that can be depended upon!” There is, though, and a very hardy one. This is the flowering cyclamen, either white or the deep rose color, which will put forth new shoots and new blossoms continually from November to April, and it is such a graceful, pretty plant, which instead of growing less attractive after a few blossoms have bloomed and fallen, becomes bushier and more interesting each day. The original cost is small, a dcllar or so buying a very good specimen, and if planted In a wide, low flower pot and set in a pretty basket, one has a charming plant, suitable for any one or all of one’s informal home meals.