DIGITALIS, DIMORPHOTHEGA, DRAC.ENA 355 



DIGITALIS (FOXGLOVE) 



Foxgloves are biennials and as handsome as can be, especially 

 when planted in large groups. If you sell perennials and plants for 

 the hardy border you are bound to have call for Foxgloves and 

 should grow on a good batch each year. 



Sow the seed about March. The seed is almost as small as 

 that of Lobelia, and the seedlings remain almost at a standstill 

 for the first month. Transplant later on into flats, allowing about 

 Ij^ in. between them, and plant outdoors in May. 



They thrive in any soil, and make heavy plants by Fall. The 

 best way to overwinter them, is to hft the plants and carry them 

 into a coldframe, planting them out again as early as possible. 

 They will come into flower by the end of June. You can also sow 

 outdoors in April and get good results. 



DIMORPHOTHEGA (AFRICAN ORANGE DAISY) 

 These little annuals are mostly grown for outdoor flowering 

 and for that purpose are sown usually where they are to flower. 

 D. aurantiaca hybrida produces flowers on fair-sized stems, ranging 

 in colors from creamy white to deep orange, but the florist hardly 

 ever grows them to any extent during Summer. However, they 

 wfll give you something a little different and attract attention if 

 sown during the latter part of February in rows on a solid bed in a 

 45-deg. house, where they will begin to flower by early May. They 

 last weU when cut and with stems 10 in. long can be used to 

 good advantage for table decorations. Your customers are always 

 ready to buy something out of the ordinary. 



DOGWOOD 



See Cornus 



DRAG^NA 



Perhaps the best known to the florist of all the many fine va- 

 rieties of Dracaenas, is D. indivisa. While by no means to be com- 

 pared with some of the others for beauty, it is used in great quan- 

 tities each year, especially for the center of vases. Frequently 

 we see smaUer ones also used in window boxes in connection with 

 other foliage plants. 



There seems to be no other plant quite as graceful or which, 

 as a foliage plant, can take the place of this Dracaena for the center 

 of a vase during the Summer months; nor any which can be grown 

 as cheaply. A lawn vase, whether a rustic affair or of iron or con- 

 crete, no matter how well you fill it, is never complete without the 

 Dracaena in the center of the arrangement. 



These Dracaenas are easily grown from seed, yet I doubt if it 

 pays the retail grower who uses three to four dozen of 5- or 6-in. 



