. Dreer's mid-summer catalogue 1916. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 10 HENRY A. DREER, PHILADELPHIA—DECORATIVE PLANTS. DRACAENAS. The Dracaena should be given a light, fibrous soil, with just enough loam in it to give it body. Drainage should be good. Watering should be liberal and showering frequent. The varie- gated sorts require plenty of light to bring out the richness of their coloring. Amabilis. Foliage bright glossy green, marked and suffused with pink and cre
. Dreer's mid-summer catalogue 1916. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 10 HENRY A. DREER, PHILADELPHIA—DECORATIVE PLANTS. DRACAENAS. The Dracaena should be given a light, fibrous soil, with just enough loam in it to give it body. Drainage should be good. Watering should be liberal and showering frequent. The varie- gated sorts require plenty of light to bring out the richness of their coloring. Amabilis. Foliage bright glossy green, marked and suffused with pink and creamy white. 50 cts. and $ each. Fragrans. An excellent house plant, with broad dark green foliage; grows under the most adverse conditions. 25 cts., 50 cts. and $ each. tiodseffiana. Entirely different from all other Dracaenas; of free-branching habit, forming compact, graceful, specimens. Its foliage is of strong, leathery texture; rich, dark green color, densely marked with irregular spots of creamy- white. Sinch pots, 25 cts. each. Imperialis. Robust growing, dark green foliage, with bright pink shadings and edgings in the young growth. £0 cts. and $ each. Knerki. Dark glossy green leaves, makes a liold specimen, and is a good house plant. 50 cts. to $ each. Massangeana. A beautiful variegated form of Fragrans with broad, green foliage, with a bread, golden-yellow band through the centre of each leaf. 50 cts. to $ each. Rothiana. Recurved glaucous green foliage. 50 cts. to .$ each. Sanderiana. A graceful variety, with glaucous green foliage, edged with a broad border of creamy-white. 25 cts. each. Terminalis. Rich crimson foliage; marked with pink and white 30 cts., 50 cts. and $ each. EUCHARIS. Amazonica. A splendid hotliouse plant. It sends up stalks bearing several pure white star-shaped flowers, 4 inches across,delightfully fragrant, and highly prized as a cut flower. 30 cts. each; $ per doz. EUGENIA. Microphylla- A pretty little plant w
Size: 1405px × 1779px
Photo credit: © Paul Fearn / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorhenryggilbertnurserya, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910
