1879.] 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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the petioles and of the younger growth it follows 

 the latter, with the color heightened. 



It is a very handsome Dracpcna, of dense and 

 robust habit, with noble foliage deeply colored, 

 the surface having a decided metallic lustre, with 

 a tinge of crimson ; the petioles of the leaves 

 have a light but rich crimson hue." 



is said to produce fronds seventeen feet in length ; 

 and as seen in this country, under pot culture, it 

 has caudices as thick as one's finger, and fronds 

 of seven or eight feet in length. To this stout 

 and vigorous constitution it adds the elegance and 

 gracefulness of minute subdivision, so that its 

 fronds, tliough large, are utterly devoid of coarse- 



DRAC^NA TAYLORI. 



Dennst.^dtia Davallioides Youngii— 

 Moore. — The following description of this beau- 

 tiful fern is taken from the Gardener\s Chronicle 

 of March 24th, 4877 : This fine new garden fern 

 comes to us from Australia. It is no doubt 

 very nearly related to the old Dicksonia davalli- 

 oides, alias Sitobolium davallioides, now referred 

 to the genus Dennsttedtia, but is much larger in 

 its growth than we have ever seen that plant, of 

 which for practical purposes it may therefore be 

 regarded as a giant form. In its native state it 



ness, and it is, in fact, a remarkably ornamental 

 plant, well adapted for occupying any bold and 

 prominent position in a stove rockery, or even 

 as a pot plant in a collection of stove or green- 

 house ferns it will always hold its position. The 

 caudex, as already described, is as stout as one's 

 finger, and of creeping habit, progressing for- 

 ward somewhat freely, and throwing up its 

 amply spreading fronds at intervals. The stipes 

 is stout, nearly k inch in diameter, and of a dark- 

 ish brown color below, golden-brown above, and 



