Everyone loves flowering house plants. Their blooms__sometimes fragrant, always colorful__catch and hold the eye. They make a unique addition to any decorating scheme.

Some house plants bloom for only brief seasons; others, almost continuously.Of the obliging beauties that put up bloom year-round, ever-flowering begonias and African violets head the list. Geraniums, close behind on the list of favorites, reward you with two seasons of bloom if you take stem cuttings at the proper time. Cuttings rooted in late summer bring fall and winter bloom in addition to spring and summer flowering.

Other flowering varieties are truly seasonal, to be enjoyed while their beauty lasts, then remembered and looked forward to for another year. Perhaps this enhances their desirability. Would amaryllis or tulips and hyacinths be as enchanting if you could have them in bloom every day?

African violets
A favorite house plant in millions of homes the African violet isn’t a violet at all, although it does come from Africa. Saintpaulias, to use the correct botanical name, keep on blooming for months on end and are among the easiest of all house plants to propagate. One good way to fill your home with different

African violets is to join the African Violet Society, and you’ll soon be trading leaves for propagation with collectors throughout the country to increase your treasury of varieties__violet, blue, white, and purple, plus soft pink__both single and double as well as ruffled.

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