DRA C/ENA S — ERA NTHEMUM. 



conservatories, and for house and table adornment, ought to be partially hardened 

 before subjecting them to this ordeal. 



Selection op Twenty Dractenas. 



Alberti, slender growth, leaves bronze and crimson. 

 ANGUSTIFOLIUS, long, narrow leaves, green, margined 

 crimson. 



Baptisti, bold, leaves green, striped yellow and pink. 

 Bausei, small recurving leaves, margined and striped 

 with red. 



Cooperi, bold recurving leaves, deep-red. 

 ELEGANTissiMA, long, narrow recurving leaves, green 

 and red. 



Gladstonei, bold leaves, dark rich crimson. 

 Goldieaxa, broad leaves, banded with dark green and 

 silvery-grey. 



Guilfoylei, narrow leaves, striped red and white. 

 GRACILIS, long narrow leaves, green. 



Jamesi, dwarf; narrow leaves, highly coloured. 



Lindeni, leaves broad and recurving, green, broadly 

 margined and striped with yellow. 



Lord Wolseley, medium recurving leaves, dark- 

 crimson. 



nigro-rubra, bold, erect growth, dark-brown and 

 crimson. 



Prince Charles of Denmark, leaves narrow, re- 

 curving rose-tint, deepening with age. 

 Sanderiana, distinct, beautiful and valuable. 

 SPLENDENS, dwarf and compact, rosy-carmine. 

 terminalis, free growth, bronze, and crimson. 



,, alba, leaves, dark-green and white. 



Willsi, medium, rich crimson. 



eranthemum. — Comprised in this genus are species cultivated for the beauty 

 of their flowers, and others on account of the attractiveness of their foliage. E. 

 Andersoni, India, deserves a place in most plant stoves. Daring the autumn strong 

 plants produce long spikes of flowers, the upper and lateral lobes of which are pure 

 white, and the lower segments thickly dotted with crimson-lake, margined with white. 

 The spikes produce a second series of flowers immediately after those first formed have 

 dropped. E. Cooperi (Fig. 151), New Caledonia, is similar in character, having white and 

 purple flowers. E. argenteo-marginatum, Polynesia, has leaves 6 inches long and 2 to 3 

 inches broad, broadly margined with white. E. igneum (syn. Chamseranthemum 

 igneum) has leaves with red veins ; E. pulchellum, the best-known species, is of a 

 sturdy branching habit of growth, and in the winter produces strong spikes of beautiful 

 blue flowers. E. sanguinolentum, Madagascar, has red veined leaves. All are 

 propagated by cuttings of young shoots that are produced in the spring by plants 

 recently cut down. Insert these in sandy peat, and either plunge the pots in a pro- 

 pagating frame, or cover with a bell-glass in a temperature of 75°. When well 

 rooted, place the plants singly in 3-inch pots, and keep them growing in brisk heat 

 and a moist atmosphere. Top to make them branch, and when fresh shoots are 

 showing shift the plants into 5-inch or G-inch pots. If large plants are required, 

 top the shoots once more, and give another good shift soon afterwards. The compost 

 suitable is formed of equal parts of loam, peat, and leaf soil with a little sand. 

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