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stage or floor or by evaporating troughs. If the Caladiums are to 

 preserve their brightness, the leaves must not be watered overhead, 

 however careful the selection of water, a sort of incrustation will 

 eventually form over the leaf, if thus watered habitually, of late 

 a great number of Hybrid Caladiums have been introduced, of 

 these some choice ones are described below : 



Prince Albert Edward, leaf stems of a rich dark ebony line, 

 streaked and barred with grey white ; leaf blades dark 

 emerald green, with a rich crimson mid rib, radiating from 

 the centre towards the margins, the intervening spaces being 

 densely spotted with ivory white. 



Madame Houlett, large leaves with clustered blush white blotches 



on the opposite leaf margins. 

 Edward Moreaux, mottled green ground with rich lake, red 



centre. 



E. G. Hendeson, rich green leaves, finely marked with transparent 

 rose spots, and brilliantly mottled crimson rays and centre. 



President, light crimson centre dark green, margin slightly 

 mottled with grey, fine, very distinct. 



Reine Victoria, style of Belleymei with elegant green veins and 

 margins, densely spotted or marbled between with white and 

 scattered rich crimson. 



Dae de Morny, deep green leaf borders, with large and beautiful 

 crimson rayed centre. 



Chelsoni, bright glossy green, suffused with brilliant red and 

 blotched with crimson. 



Siebold, rich green, with fiery red crimson rayed centre, green 

 spaces densely spotted with claret red. 



Triomphe De L'Exposition, crimson centre with red ribs and 

 green border. 



Baron de Rothschild, rich blood red centre and spots on mottled 

 green leaf ground. 



Napoleon III, flamed crimson centre with forked rays and carmine 

 red spots on a rich green ground. 



