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THE GARDENER. 



[Jan. 



ing health and freshness — in smaller pots than are needed or desirable 

 for general purposes ; and the requirements of some plants are much 

 more easily supplied than those of others under such circumstances. 



Considering how the supply of such plants is yearly becoming much 

 more of a gardener's duty, it is hoped that the engravings of plants, 

 taken from photographs, with which it is intended to illustrate and 

 correctly show the relative size of plants and pots, will from time to 

 time — along with cultural notes on such plants and their congeners — 

 prove instructive to some of the readers of the * Gardener.' The plants 

 for illustration will be selected, not for their rarity, but for their 

 fitness as table-plants. 



FlQ. 1. 



The genus Dracaena furnishes some of the most elegant and useful 

 of table-plants that can be named. D. Cooperii, fig. 1, is the very 



