Plate 423. 
DRACAENA AURANTIACA. 
This is a very fine and effective variety of the narrow-leaved section, the habit of the 
plant being erect and slender ; the leaves long, narrow, erect at the base, and thence 
arching gradually ; the leaf-stalks are erect and edged with rose colour. The leaves 
themselves are green, broadly edged with a band, one quarter of an inch wide, of a bright 
orange or flame colour, pallid in the young central growth, and flushed with a salmony 
hue, thence deepening, as it gains age, into an intense flame or orange tint. The young 
free growth is more or less wholly suffused with this orange tint. 
This is in every respect a most telling novelty ; it was raised by Mr. F. Bause, of the 
Melbourne Nursery, Anerley, from a cross made between D. concinna and D. Regina, and 
it is especially valuable in this respect, that quite small plants of it are richly and 
strikingly coloured, at the same time it is remarkably free in growth. It is in course of 
distribution by the General Horticultural Company (John Wills), Limited, Warwick House, 
Regent Street. 
Plate 424. 
IVY-LEAVED PELARGONIUM, GLOIRE D’ORLEANS. 
This very fine and distinct variety has been put into commerce by Mons. Victor 
Lemoine, of Nancy, France, and we are indebted to Mr. A. F. Barron, Superintendent of 
the Royal Horticultural Society’s Garden at Chiswick, for the opportunity of figuring it. 
It is a very distinct-coloured type, with large and full double flowers, the colour of 
which is much deeper than any variety we have seen, and may be best described as of a 
very pleasing rosy-pink shade, and with a much better and freer habit of growth than is 
generally found in this section. A First-class Certificate of Merit was awarded to it by 
the Royal Horticultural Society on June 22nd. 
In the plants of this very fine variety we saw growing at the Chiswick Gardens, we 
were struck with the singularly compact and, at the same time, free-blooming and free- 
branching growth, the pyramidal-trained plants being covered with trusses of bloom. 
The best Ivy-leaved Pelargoniums are well adapted for cultivating as standard plants, 
working them on a strong-growing stock of one of the Zonal varieties; they then 
assume a pendulous form of growth, and are very useful for conservatory decoration. 
