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{July, 



almost cover the pot; the flowers, which are 

 much larger than in the old sorts, are of very 

 rich shades of color and fine form. By sowing 

 on a gentle hotbed in January and February, 

 they may be had in bloom in the following 

 Autumn, and seedling plants always yield much 

 the finest blooms. — Gardener\^ Chronicle. 



Dkac^na elegantissima.— There are few 

 things so useful for room decoration, or for any 



Son, and was exhibited by them in 1875. This 

 is a dark colored variety, with narrovv undulated 

 leaves, and of dense habit. The leaves are of a 

 deep bronze with a metallic lustre, and very dis- 

 tinctly margined with bright crimson ; in the 

 young leaves crimson of a ligbter shade entirely 

 predominates, the bright coloring giving the 

 plant a glowing and attractive aspect. It is one 

 of the best of the narrow-leaved Dractenas. 



DRAC^NA ELEGANTISSIMA, 



kind of decoration where there are strpng archi- 

 tectural surroundings as the various kinds of 

 Dragon's Blood plants, or Dracaenas. These 

 are of many varied forms •, some being charac- 

 terized by a few broad metal-like leaves, and 

 others by narrow ones, and these again varied 

 by many tints, spots and stripes of various colors. 

 The one we now have is not absolutely new, 

 having been introduced to public notice by the 

 celebrated English firm of James Veitch and 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



Gloxinia Disease. — " Waverly," Baltimore 

 Co., Md., writes : " I have for several years with 

 much pleasure and satisfaction cultivated the 

 Gloxinia. The bloom of a good collection of 

 tliese plants has a charm so peculiar and an 

 abundance of flowers of such variety of color 

 and form, and comes at a season when the green- 



