34 JOHN SAUL'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 



Per plant. 

 ♦Mooreana. It is a noble plant, the leaves being fully four inches in width, two 

 to three 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 , 50 cts. 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 cts. to 1 00 



*Baptistii. The leaves are green, 1 to 1| foot long, four inches broad, margined 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 cts. 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 continued throughout the edge 



of the leaf, breaks out into streads and patches 50 cts. to 1 00 



*Fraseri. 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 marginal 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 cts. to 1 00 



*Grandis. The leaf is a foot long and 4^ inches broad, with striated surface, 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 cts. to 1 00 



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

 tion 50 cts. 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 cts. to 1 00 



*Metallica. This is the finest of all the dark colored Dracaenas, the leaves being as 

 much as sixteen 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 50 cts. to 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 cts. to 1 00 



Regina. 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 cts. 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 five inches 



broad, tinted at the edge with the same bronzy orange color. 50 cts. to 1 00 



Splendens, Of dwarf and compact but free habit, densely furnished with short re- 

 curved leaves, about nine inches long and four inches broad. The color is a deep 

 bronzy green, breaking out in the young growth into bright rosy carmine. The 

 brighter coloring appears sometimes in stripes, and sometimes occupies the whole 



surface 50 cts. to 1 00 



Imperialis. The variegation is in this case of a clear white combined with deep rose, 

 and is most effective. The leaf-stalks are about four inches long, and marginate. 

 The color is a deep sap green, breaking out freely in the young leaves into 



white 50 cts. to 1 00 



*Macleayi. Leaves are some eighteen inches long and about four inches wide, of a rich 

 dark metallic bronze. It is very distinct in habit and color, and one of the most 



beautiful 50 cts. to 1 00 



*Porphyrophylla. A noble stove shrub of erect habit, with bold broadly oblong 

 leaves of a fine deep bronzy green color, having a glaucous bloom on the under 



surface 30 cts. to 75 



Braziliensis. A robust growing species with large, broad green foliage 50 



Cooperii. Foliage gracefully recurved, rich crimson 25 cts. to 50 



(Jharlwoodia Serratifolia. Foliage green, erect , 25 cts. to 50 



