354 FRITZ BAHR'S COMMERCIAL FLORICULTURE 



rosea, perhaps the best known one) have large leaves which turn 

 to a beautiful bronze brown when touched by the first frost in Fall. 



Cut your plants back well each Spring and when they are 

 through flowering you will admire their beautiful foliage. The 

 deeply veined leaves in Fall take on a bronze shade and hang on 

 as long as anything in the border. 



Some of the sorts sometimes winterkill a little with us, but 

 we keep on recommending and planting them. Their many bell- 

 shaped flowers range from white (D. Candida) to dark carmine (D. 

 Eva Rathke) and appear from the end of May through June, in 

 fact, there are scattered ones all Summer long. 



D. Abel Carriere is one of the newer hybrid sorts with large deep 

 rose-colored flowers and Chameleon is another good early rose- 

 pink sort. D. rosea nana compada has pink flowers and beautifully 

 variegated foliage and is of dwarf habit, but not as hardy as we would 

 like to have it. 



Fig. 149. DRACAENA AMABILIS. We are blessed with many beautiful Dracaenas 



in a great variety of colorings. Practically all of them are useful as decorative 



plants during the Winter season, especially around Christmas time 



