New, Rare and Beautiful Plants. 19 
DIEFFEKBACHIA, Continued. 
D. illustris. Leaves deep green, colored ground, banded 
with yellow, light green and gray. $\.TM to ■$.'). 
D. majestica. Leaves dark green, variegated with 
scattered bright yellowish blotches, and haviugbesides 
1^ a feathery silver bar along the central line. One foot 
or more in length, and live to six inches in l)readth : 
very distinct and stocky in habit. $3 to ^n. 
D. Fearcei. Leaves bright light green, profusely spot- 
ted and blotched with creamy white ; each side of the 
mid -rib with a band of the same color; large, oblong- 
lanceolate. $1.50 to -¥3. 
D. picta. Leaves spotted with white; a fine, distinct 
variety. $!..'>() to 
D . Shuttleworthii. Leaves variegated with a feathery 
white band along the raid-rib; very distinct and bright. 
$1..50to$3. 
D. Wallisii. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, of a rich dark 
green, marked along the mid-rib with broad feathery 
bands of a light gray, ornamented with irregular 
blotches of the same color towards the niai'gin; fine. 
»I.50to«3. 
lACHIA. 
DRACAENA. We grow many thousands of Dracienas 
annually, and pay great attention to new varieties. 
Those following are all extra fine. 
Argenteo-striata. An extremely elegant narrow-leaved 
si)ecies, imported from the South pea Islands. It has 
linear lanceolate bright green leaves, beautifully 
striated and occasionally margined with creamy-white, 
the bright green being also relieved with streaks of 
silvery gray. It is of exceptionally neat habit, and 
admirably adapted for table decoration and other onia- 
raental purposes. *5 to $7M). (See out, p. 30.) 
Bartelli. Leaves reddish bronze, bordered with red in 
the adult state; when young, brilliant red, flaked with 
brownish red; a beautiful variety. $3..50to|B. 
Claudia. Leaves bronzy green, flaked and margined 
with crimson; a fine variety. 512.50 to Jvi. 
Zixcellens. Leaves bronzy, variegated with bright x-osy 
red; broad, oblong, drooping; ttne. *2.50 to $5. 
Eburnea. A fine variety of a beautiful shade of varie- 
gation ; quite distinct. $5 to *< .50. 
Leonardii. Leaves purely shaded with clear carmine, 
changing with age to a deep red ; fine. $2,50 to 18.50. 
