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Per plant, 

 leaves with their foot-stalks are about 18 inches in length. "When 

 first expanded they are creamy white, slightly shaded with green of 

 a tint quite unlike any other Dracaena in cultivation, with a few 

 oblique stripes of deep green, with a pale crimson mid-rib. The 

 light-colored portions of the leaf become suffused with delicate rose. 

 It colors well from its youngest state, even when in the smallest pots, 

 so that it will prove a most valuable decorative plant in every stage 

 of its growth $3 00 



*Dracfena "Frederici. It has a compact yet graceful habit of vigorous 

 growth. Its leaves assume a rich rosy crimson color, and is a grand 

 decorative plant. One of the most valuable, as it colors beautifully 

 in a small state .' 3 00 



*Macarthuri. Of very dwarf compact growth and bright colored foliage. 

 The leaves, including their petioles, scarcely reach a foot in length, 

 with a breadth of three inches; they are very elegant both in form 

 and coloring, the latter being especially brilliant and attractive, ren- 

 dering this variety one of the most distinct in cultivation. In many 

 leaves almost the entire upper surface is colored with a vivid rosy car- 

 mine, interrupted by a few lines of deep olive green ; in others the 

 bright coloring is confined to the margins 2 00 



*Roseo-picta. A plant of robust habit and bold aspect. The leaves are 

 sub-erect or slightly spreading, from 18 to 20 inches long including 

 the foot stalk, with a width of four inches.. They are beautifully 

 colored with a delicate rose tint which deepens by age to a bright car- 

 mine, finely contrasting with the ground color which is a deep olive 

 green 2 00 



*Terminalis Alba. This is a most important acquisition, having quite 

 the habit and character of the well-known favorite D. ierminalis, but 

 with white variegation. The ground color bright green, with bold 

 pure white variegation, the upper leaves being white, with here and 

 there a bar or band of green, in some cases large sectional patches are 

 colored white, while leaf-stalks are also edged with white, colors very 

 early 2 50 



*Bausei Of grand and free-growing habit, highly colored, and most 

 effective, raised between JD. Chelsoni and regina Leaves recurved, 

 about 4 inches wide, dark bronze^ the margin crimson, narrow in the 

 lower leaves, becoming broader and more developed on the upper 

 ones, the youngest and uppermost being broadly and brilliantly edged 

 with deep rose, and the margins of the leaf-stalks also richly 

 colored 2 50 



*Taylori. Of very stout habit, a hybrid between D. magnifica and Moore- 

 ana, dwarf and dense. Leaves very broad ovate-oblong, erect, with 

 reddish stalks, having something the aspect of those of D. Fraseri 1 50 



*Wisemannii. A handsome stove shrub, with the leaves of a bronzy hue, 

 red at the margins, and breaking out into white in the younger 

 growth ^.... 1 00 



*Robinsoniana, (new.) A robust growing variety, having leaves from 15 

 to 18 inches long, and from 3 to 3^ inches broad ; the ground color is 

 a light olive green, very much striped with bands of bronzy crimson 

 and greenish white, more broadly in some leaves than in others ; the 

 petioles are margined with crimson. The coloring is unlike that of 

 any other Dracaena, and marks the plant as a distinct variety 1 50 



*Elegantissima, (new.) A dark colored variety, with narrow undulated 

 leaves of dense habit. The leaves are of a deep bronze, with a metal- 

 lic lustre, and very distinctly margined with bright crimson ; in the 

 young leaves crim-son of a lighter shade entirely predominfltes, the 

 bright coloring giving the plant a glowing and attractive aspect. It 

 is one of the best of the narrow-leaved Dracaenas 1 50 



*Speciosa, (new.) The leaves are broadly striped or margined with a 

 yellowish creamy white, stained and edged with light rosy pink ; the 

 ground color is a rather light but pleasing olive green; it is therefore 

 a tri-colored plant, distinct and attractive 75 to 1 50 



