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Begonia Rex, leaves deep green, banded with a broad 

 silvery zone, or deep bronze-red centres; spotted 

 with white, or l)rown-purpie, nerves red, etc. 

 Caladium, green bU:)tched with white ; carmine-red bor- 

 dered with white; uniform golden-yellow, etc. 

 Codid'um, Syn. Croton, green with infinite variegations 

 chiefly with yellow, which frecpientl}^ changes di- 

 rectly to a fiery scarlet or crimson, and the lower 

 surface to purple-brown. 

 Dracama, green, marbled and banded with various shades 



of yellow, and margined and veined with red. 

 Pandanus Candelabrwn, var. green, with bands of pure 



white. 

 Panicnm variegalum, white strii)ed and pink tinted. 

 Arnndo donax, green, stri[)ed with white. 

 Aj)helandi'a leopoldi, green, variegated with narrow, 



white feather veins. 

 Strohilanthes I)//eranius, lilac-})urple with pinnate green 



veins. 

 Many trees in our lawns have variegated leaves, especially 

 in maples, beeches, etc., and numerous shrubs. 



In some of the preceding the leaves are far more attrac- 

 tive than the flowers. 



Coleus displays in its many varieties the two series of 

 Xanthic and Cyanic coloration. Commencing with a deej) 

 purple breaking through a green leaf, one series leads 

 through crimson and pink to white, and the other retaining 

 the yellow element of the chloro})hyl goes through scarlet 

 and orange to yellow and finally to white. 



Even in a plain green leaf of Coleus one may change to 

 yellow and another without yellow directly to white. A 

 blue or purple color is by no means obliged to wait for a 

 yellow to precede it ! It breaks forth when and where it 

 pleases ; it is perfectly obvious that many times the yellow 

 is not at all in the series. 



The same remark applies to all rijiening leaves, whether 



