OF NEW, RARE AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS. 33 



DBACJEJNA.— Dragon Tree. 



Our rich collection of Dracaenas has been awarded the first premium by the Maryland 



Horticultural Society for several years, and first premium at the •' Cincinnati Exposition,' 



in September last. For decorative purposes these plants are now extensively grown, their 



broad dark tropical foliage and graceful habit render them very appropriate. 



Per plant 



*Draca?na Superba. This is without doubt the most slender and graceful growing 

 variety ever offered, and is one of the finest hybrids yet sent out. For table deco- 

 ration and pot culture, it is unsurpassed. The leaves are pendulous, arching, from 

 12 to 18 inches long, from 1 to H inches broad, linear lanceolate, dark bronzy 

 green, margined and striped with bright crimson. The young leaves are rosy 

 crimson 3 00 



^Princess Margaret. A very fine variety, remarkably distinct in the color and mark- 

 ings of its foliage. The leaves with their foot-stalks are about eighteen 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 ; $2 to 3 00 



*Draca?na 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 $2 to 3 00 



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

 very elegant both in form and coloring, the latter being especially brilliant and 

 attractive, rendering this variety one of the most distinct in cultivation. In many 

 leaves almost the entire upper surface is colored with a vivid rosy carmine, inter- 

 rupted by a few lines of deep olive green; in others the bright coloring is confined 

 to the margins $1 to 2 50 



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

 colored with a delicate rose tint which deepens by age to a bright carmine, finely 

 contrasting with the. ground color which is a deep olive green $1 to 2 50 



*Terminalis Alba. This is D. terminalis, 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 $1.50 to 2 50 



*Bausei. Of grand habit, highly colored and most effective. Leaves recurved, 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 $1.50 to 2 50 



*Taylori. Of very stout habit, a hybrid between D. magnified and Mooreana, dwarf 

 and df-nse. Leaves very broad ovate-oblong, erect, with reddish stalks, having 

 something the aspect of those of D. Fraseri SI to 2 00 



*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 to 2 00 



*Pvobinsoniana, (new.) A robust growing variety, having leaves from 15 to 18 inches 

 long, and from 3 to Z\ inches broad ; the ground color is a light olive green, very 

 much striped with bands of bronzy crimson and greenish white ; the petioles are 

 margined with crimson. The coloring is unlike that of any other Dracaena, and 

 marks the plant as distinct \ $1 to 2 00 



*Elegantissima, (new.) A dark colored variety, with undulated leaves of dense habit. 

 The leaves are of a deep bronze, with a metallic lustre, and very distinctly mar- 

 gined with bright crimson; in the youmr leaves crimson of a lighter shade entirely 

 predominates, the bright coloring giving the plant a glowing and attract: ve 

 aspect '.75 cts. to 2 00 



■^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 attrac- 

 tive 75 cts. to 1 50 



*Hybrida. 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 creamv white, the foot-stalks being also of deep rose..'. 50 cts. to 1 50 



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