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best type of the drooping varieties. It has much to recommend it ; 

 its leaves droop with a most graceful curve, and are broadly striped 

 and laced with reddish crimson, qualities which give it an easy, grace- 

 ful, and brilliant appearance on a table, especially when the service is 

 of silver. This illustration is taken from a plant 24 inches high (not 

 including the pot) in a 6-inch pot, and is suitable on a large table as 

 an end plant, with epergnes dressed with flowers, and ferns between 

 it, and the centre plant, which requires to be dissimilar in habit from 

 the Dracaenas, and may be a Palm or a Croton. The following are 

 also excellent dropping varieties, those marked G being suitable for 

 greenhouse or cold-pit culture, and can be kept in health through 

 the winter in a temperature of 45° to 50°. Those marked * are the 

 best of those enumerated : — 



* Dracaena Cooperi. 

 draco. 



Dracsena gracilis. 

 Australis. 



Dracsena indivisa. 

 ,, Yeitchii. 



Fig. 2, D. rubra, 18 inches high, not including its 4-inch pot, is one 



Fig. 2. 



of the most handsome of the genus for table decoration, and is the 



