THE 1300K OF GARDENING. 



ORNAMENTAL FOLIAGE STOVE PLANTS— contd. 



veins; distinct. Gaspard Grayer, 1. cr. 

 centre, green margin, veined bright cr. 

 Ladas, midrib and veins car., inter- 

 spaces lighter and mottled pink. Lady 

 MoSLEY, rose-car. blade with a narrow 

 green margin, veins bright car. Lady 

 Stafford Northcote, an effective 

 variety with arrow-shaped blood-red 1. 

 shaded with cr. ; one of the best. Le 

 Nain Rouge, a small-1. bright copper- 

 red variety. Marquis of Camden, 

 large 1. with dark-blood red veins, 

 interspaces glowing red, green margin 

 and a few whitish spots. Martin 

 Luther, rose-cr., dwarf and compact. 

 Mrs. Ice'JON, 1. sulphur-yel., white 

 blotches, violet and cr. tints ; a hand- 

 somely delicate light variety. Mrs. 

 McLeod, 1. cr. marked darker veins ; 

 an excellent variety, belonging to the 

 dwarf section. Mrs. Morter, light 

 pink suffused white, deep car.- 

 red veins and pale green margin. 

 Silver Cloud, silvery-white, green 

 spots, and short car.-red veins. Sir 

 Julian Goldsmid, large blade, bright 

 red veins and reticulations, interspaces 

 suffused red as they mature ; dwarf and 

 good habit. Sir AVilliam Bro.\d- 

 BENT, veins brilliant car., interspaces 

 green, copiously spotted white. The 

 Mikado, centre of blade dark car., 

 shaded with maroon and margins bright 

 green ; an effective variety. Tho^^ias 

 Peed, 1. bright rose suffused green at 

 the edges, veins car., good and distinct ; 

 of dwarf habit. , 



Croton (Codiaeum) 



Disraeli, 1. trilobate, about ift. 

 long, middle lobe elongated, and 

 broadest near the extremity, midrib 

 golden, with a band of yellow on each 

 side, the green portions become bright 

 sc. with age, and beautilully splashed 

 and mottled with rich orange-yel. 

 Her Majesty, straight, narrow, clear 

 yel. ; 1. tipped green. Mme. Ernest 

 Bergman, a short broad-1. variety, 

 beautifully marbled with green, bright 

 yel. and cr. Mayi, 1. narrow, rich 

 yel., blotched green. Mrs. Iceton, a 

 br<iad-leaved variety in which various 

 shades of yel.. green, rose, and car. are 

 attractively blended. Mrs. McLeod, 

 1. narrowly-linear, 6in. to loin. long, 

 gracefully arching; midrib bright- 

 coloured, a band of yel. on each side, 

 deep green margins, \vith various tints 



and colourings in 1. in different stages 

 of maturity ; a very effective decorative 

 variety. M. E. Fourner, centre of 

 1. rich golden-yel., margius bright green, 

 veined with yel. Shi ttleworthii, 1. 

 long, narrow, pendent, slightly twisted, 

 cream and green, with rosy-red mid- 

 ribs. L'NDULATUS, 1. oblong acuminate, 

 8in. to 9in. long and i^in. lo 2in. 

 wide, with undulated margins, most 

 handsomely blotched and mottled with 

 cr., pink, and yel., midrib purplish, 

 very handsome. 



Curmeria 



PICTURATA, dwarf-growing, 1. heart- 

 shaped, light green, a prominent white 

 band running the entire length. Wal- 

 Lisii, 1. ovate-oblong, spreading, 

 irregular patchings and markings of 

 dark green, yellowish-green, and 

 greenish-grey ; dwarf and distinct. 



Dieffenbachia 



BRAsiLiENSJS, 1. i8in. long, 9in. 

 wide, deep green, suffused and spotted 

 with greenish - yel. and white. 

 ILLUSTRLS, 1. lanceolate-acute, dark 

 green, irregularly blotched and mottled 

 with white and yel-green ; excellent 

 exhibition, i:\iperialis, 1. deep green, 

 irregularly blotched and spotted with 

 creamy-yel., and white and greyish 

 mid-rib ; a bold-growing, handsome 

 kind. Jexmanii, 1. broadly lance- 

 shaped, deep green, with transverse 

 white lines and blotches ; distinct and 

 ornamental. magnifica, 1. shining 

 sombre green, with dense spots and 

 blotches of silverv-white occunins' in 

 the spaces between the secondar}' 

 nerves; of compact habit, triumphans, 

 1. ovate - lanceolate, attenuately 

 acuminate, I2in. long, 5in. wide, dark 

 green, with large angular blotches of 

 yel. -green; of somewhat spreading 

 habit. 



Dracaena 



A. Laing, 1. gracefully arching, 2^ft. 

 long. I Jin. broad, cr. ; decorative ; of 

 good constitution. DuCHESs of York, 

 1. loin. to I5in. long, lin. broad, whtn 

 young light green M'ith cream-white 

 margins, tinted with rose-pink ; matui e 

 1. dark olive green, with bright car. 

 margins ; a good table plant. 

 Mallettii, lower 1. slightly drooping, 

 upper erect, 2ft. long and 4in. broad, 

 bronzy-green, with car. margins ; young 



