38 John Saul's 



Per plant. 



*Hybrida, (new.) The older leaves are of a deep green color, margined 

 with bright rose; as the plant attains age, the latter formed leaves 

 become entirely suffused with deep rose and creamy white, the foot- 

 stalks being also of deep rose. The variegation shows itself whilst 

 the plant is quite young 50 to 1 50 



*Mooreana, (new.) It is a noble plant, the leaves being fully 4 inches in 

 width, 2 to 3 feet in length, and beautifully undulated. The habit is 

 compact, and especially suitable for decorative purposes. The base of 

 the leaf-stalk and the mid-rib are of a bright reddish crimson color, 

 which, in the leaf itself, changes to a glossy bronze 75 to 1 50 



*Amabilis. This is a magnificent variety. The ground color of the leaf 

 is bright glossy green, becoming beautifully marked and suffused 

 with pink and creamy white, the young leaves being occasionally of 

 quite a rosy color - 50 to 1 00 



^Baptistii. The leaves are green, 1 to 1^ foot long, 4 inches broad, mar- 

 gined and irregularly and obliquely striped with narrowish creamy 

 white flakes, passing through pale pink to deep rose. The older 

 leaves frequently become flushed with rose 50 to 1 00 



*Excelsa. Large leaves, of an erect arching habit, and of a deep bronzy 

 hue, margined with deep magenta crimson. This bright color is con- 

 tinued throughout the edge of the leaf, breaks out into streads and 

 patches 50 to 1 00 



*Eraseri. The leaves, a foot or upwards in length, and as much as five 

 inches broad, are margined with bright rosy lake. The principal 

 part of the leaf is of a blackish purple, with a glaucous bloom, a mar- 

 ginal stripe of deep magenta runs down into the edge of the petiole, 

 while here and there besides may be seen a streak of the same rich 

 rose color 50 to 1 00 



*Grandis. The leaf is a foot long and 4| inches broad, with striated sur- 

 face, which is of a shaded deep green, broadly edged near the base 

 with blush white, the extreme margin being of a deep magenta rose, 

 which becomes more or less suffused over the pallid portions 50 to 1 00 



*Guilfoylei. A most superb species, with long pendant lanceolate acumi- 

 nate leaves ; the ground color is bright green ; fully one-half the leaf, 

 however, is striped with white and bright rosy red, the latter color 

 mostly forming the border in addition 50 to 1 00 



*Hendersoni. One of the very finest forms, being distinct not only in its 

 elegant and graceful habit, but in the leaves being uniquely and 

 beautifully variegated with white, rosy-pink stripes upon a light 

 green ground 75 to 1 00 



*Magnifica. This is a very handsome plant ; leaves nearly two feet in 

 length and eight inches in breadth, when the plant is well grown. 

 The foot-stalks are reddish purple, and the leaves are rich bronzy 

 brown suffused with pink, becoming darker with age 50 to 1 00 



■^Metallica. This is the finest of all the dark colored Dracaenas, the leaves 

 being as much as 16 inches long. These, together with the sheathing 

 leaf-stalks, are of a uniform rich coppery purplish hue when young, 

 becoming a dark purplish bronze when mature 1 00 



Nigro-Rubra. A robust growing and exceedingly beautiful plant, leaves 

 upwards of eighteen inches in length, ground color rich brown, the 

 centre crimson, shaded with rose ; it is a most desirable variety..50 to 1 00 



Kegina. This is a plant producing very large and broad leaves, the ground 

 color is bright green, but fully one-half the leaf is variegated with 

 creamy white, which produces a rich and most beautiful effect..50 to 1 00 



Shepherdii. This plant takes on its distinctive coloring gradually on the 

 older leaves, the young ones being green, and showing paler green 

 stripes on those parts which take on at a later period the peculiar 

 bronzy orange hue. It is very free growing, of ample proportions, 

 the broad oblong linear leaves 2^ feet long and 6 inches broad, tinted 

 at the edge with the same bronzy orange color 50 to 1 00 



Splendens. Of dwarf and compact but free growing habit, densely 

 furnished with short recurved leaves, about nine inches long and four 



