Dreer's autumn catalogue : 1899 bulbs plants, seeds, etc . PHKUS Alternifolius. FICUS (Rubber Plant). Elastica. The well-known India Rubber Tree,one of the very best plants for table or parlor dec-oration. Its thick, leathery leaves enable it tostand excessive heat and dryness. 4-inch pots, 10 inches high § 50 each. 5 15 75 6 24 1 00 Elastica variegata. This is one of tlie finest decorative ornamental foliage plants of late intro-duction. In habit and growth it is like the ordi-nary P. elastica, but the leaves of this novel planthave a pleasing yellow variegation throughout.(See cut.) Fine pla
Dreer's autumn catalogue : 1899 bulbs plants, seeds, etc . PHKUS Alternifolius. FICUS (Rubber Plant). Elastica. The well-known India Rubber Tree,one of the very best plants for table or parlor dec-oration. Its thick, leathery leaves enable it tostand excessive heat and dryness. 4-inch pots, 10 inches high § 50 each. 5 15 75 6 24 1 00 Elastica variegata. This is one of tlie finest decorative ornamental foliage plants of late intro-duction. In habit and growth it is like the ordi-nary P. elastica, but the leaves of this novel planthave a pleasing yellow variegation throughout.(See cut.) Fine plants, 4-inch pots, 10 to 12inches high, $ each. MARAISTA. Valuable decorative stove plants, remarkable fortheir richness and beauty of their varied 50 cts. 25 cts. 50 cts. Ficus ElasticaVariegata. Preer^s Autumn Catalogue, 1899. DRAC^NAS. Godsefflaua. Undoubtedly one of the most slriUing new onia-ment;^l foliage plants of recent introduction. As shown in the illus-tration, the plant is of an entirely different habit and appearancefrom all other Dracsenas; it is of free-branching habit, and throwsout many suckeis from the base so as to form beautiful, compact,graceful specimens m a very short time. Its foliage is broadly lan-ceolate, 5 to 6 inches long, and 2 to 3 inches wide; of a strongleathery texture; rich dark green color, densely marked with irregu-ilar dots and spots of a creamy-white, not unlike an Aucuba Japon-ica, of which the markings in the foliage strikingly remind illustration gives but a faint idea of its striking beauty ; it is aplant which will undoubtedly be grown very extensively for decor-ative purposes when it becomes more plentiful, as it is very hardy asa house plant, equaling if not surpassing in this respect the Aspidis-t
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