DECORATIVE SUBJECTS, Continued 
Diffenbachia 
D. picta Var. Barraquiniana. Differs from nobilis 
in having petioles and midribs almost pure white. 
D. splendens. A hybrid with white spotted leaves. 
DRACAENA. [15] Tropical. Excellent decorative 
subjects, most of them highly colored and giving a 
very rich tropical appearance. Fine as house 
plants and florists’ decorative stock, as well as for 
window boxes. Our assortment covers most of 
the leading varieties. We have developed a strain 
of very fine hybrids of astonishingly beautiful 
form and color, a glory to any garden or con¬ 
servatory, on which we will be glad to quote on 
request. 
D. amabilis. Foliage bright glossy green, marked 
and suffused with pink and cream. 
D. Draco. Dragon Tree. Makes an odd ornamental, 
much used in California. 
D. fragrans. A large-leaved plain green form; very 
useful as tub plants. 
D. Godseffiana. A small variety suited for fern- 
dishes. Branches freely and with small leaves 
spotted and suffused creamy white and yellow. 
D. Lord Wolseley. Long, narrow, recurving foliage, 
coloring to a bright rosy red. 
D. Massangeana. Dark green leaf with broad yellow 
band through center. 
D. Mme. Eugene Andre. Finest of the high-colored 
varieties, having heavy bronze foliage, changing 
to an intense rosy crimson. 
D. Pink Superba. Narrow, graceful foliage of a pret¬ 
ty carmine-rose. 
D. Sanderiana. A slender dwarf type with small 
leaves beautifully striped white. Fine for small 
pots and with ferns. 
D. terminalis. Rich crimson foliage, marked pink 
and white. 
D. tricolor. Similar to amabilis, but colors white, 
pink, and green. 
EPISCIA [15-A]. Tropical. Lovely pot plant resem¬ 
bling Saintpaulia with brownish leaves margined 
silver, and profuse scarlet flowers. 
EUPHORBIA [16] splendens. Crown of Thorns. 
Sub-tropical. Madagascar. A low growing spiny 
plant with a few light green leaves on the new 
growth which produces small clusters of scarlet 
flowers almost continuously throughout the year. 
Very useful for rock gardens or for vases, and 
may be trained in ornamental forms. 
FICUS [17] elastica. Var. Doescherii. A cream 
blotched variation of Ficus elastica making a 
very handsome house plant, 
FITTONIA [18] argyroneura. Tropical. A dwarf 
plant of creeping habit, having beautiful silver- 
veined foliage. 
GARDENIA [19]. Hardy. This is the old double 
flowered jasmine of the south, making a broad 
leaved evergreen shrub six to eight feet high, 
with dark green, glossy foliage, magnificent, 
waxy white, and intensely fragrant flowers, in¬ 
dispensable for formal use. Should be in every 
garden. In our organization we have overcome 
the difficulty of growing gardenias successfully 
by using pure peat only as planting medium. 
G. florida. This is the old fashioned and well known 
cape jasmine whose only drawback is its short 
blooming season. Beautiful shrub the year round. 
G. Fortune!. A variation of Veitchii from which 
it differs in the shape of the bloom which rather 
resembles a camellia. 
G. Hadley. A prize-taking flower of large size, fully 
double, recently introduced. 
G. Mystery. A recent introduction, this is by all 
means the best for landscape use. It is a very 
strong grower with bigger leaves than the other 
varieties and has the largest flowers of the genus. 
G. radicans. This is the dwarf of the genus with 
tiny, perfect shaped blossoms. 
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