FOLIAGE PLANTS OTHER THAN PALMS I93 



introduction, P. Sanderi, in which the stripes 

 instead of white are yellow, and during the 

 winter months the new growth in the centre 

 of the plant is a deep golden hue. 



Not as pretty but just as hardy is the 

 ordinary screw pine {P and anus utilis). This 

 is a stronger grower than Veitchii; I have 

 seen specimens twenty feet high in green- 

 houses. The leaves are produced in a spiral, 

 from which it gets its name " screw" pine, are 

 light green in colour and the edges and mid- 

 rib set with spines as in Veitchii. If you 

 cannot get Veitchii, get this one — and it 

 does not cost as much either because it is 

 much easier to propagate as it is easily grown 

 from seeds. 



One curious thing about the pandanuses is 

 the stilted effect they give. This is par- 

 ticularly true of utilis. When the plant 

 begins to attain any size it produces from 

 the stems near the ground large thick roots 

 which immediately penetrate the soil. So 

 many of these are made that the plants look 

 as if they were standing on stilts. All the 

 pandanuses are more or less subject to " spot," 

 which is caused by small insects burrowing 

 under the epidermis of the leaf. There 



