Dreer's garden book seventy-third Dreer's garden book : seventy-third annual edition 1911 dreersgardenbook1911henr Year: 1911 L Dkac-ena Massangeana. DIEFFENBACHIAS. Handsome decorative plants, with bold, ornamental foliage; useful for the warm conservatory. Baraquiniana. Bright green, irregularly spotted with white, mid- rib and stems creamy-white. Bausei. Leaves yellowish-green, blotched dark green and spotted white. Bowmannii. Rich deep green leaves, blotched with irregular mark- ings of light pea-green. Jenmanii. Long, narrow, bright green foliage, spotted with white. Magnifica. Shin
Dreer's garden book seventy-third Dreer's garden book : seventy-third annual edition 1911 dreersgardenbook1911henr Year: 1911 L Dkac-ena Massangeana. DIEFFENBACHIAS. Handsome decorative plants, with bold, ornamental foliage; useful for the warm conservatory. Baraquiniana. Bright green, irregularly spotted with white, mid- rib and stems creamy-white. Bausei. Leaves yellowish-green, blotched dark green and spotted white. Bowmannii. Rich deep green leaves, blotched with irregular mark- ings of light pea-green. Jenmanii. Long, narrow, bright green foliage, spotted with white. Magnifica. Shining somber green foliage, variegated with blotches and spots of pure white. MemoraJ Corsi. Leaves silvery-white, veined green. Picta. Dark green, with numerous white spots. Splendens. Rich, deep bottle-green, freely marked with whitish striated blotches. Price, 50 cts. each. Set of 8 sorts, $3 50. ECHEYERIA. Secunda glauca. The blue-green-leaved variety so much used in carpet bedding, 15 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. ERANTHEMIM. Albo=marginatum, A pretty hothouse plant, with foliage 4 to 5 inches long by 2 to 2k inches wide, of rich dark green, margined with white and irregularly suffused with gray. 50 cts. each. DRAC^NAS. Mr. Eben. E. Rexford writes the following cultural notes ex- pressly for this book: 'This plant is better adapted to the greenhouse, or a plant- room in which the temperature and moisture can be controlled, than it is to the window-garden, where the air is almost always dry and the temperature fluctuating. Such varieties, however, as D, frdgram and D. indivisaâthe former with broad foli- age and the latter with very long, narrow grass-like leavesâcan be grown quite satisfactorily in the living-room if care is taken to prevent the red spider from injuring them. D. indivisa is very graceful in habit, and makes an excellent plant for the decora- tion of the table. The richly-colored varieties are among the finest ornaments of the greenhouse. 'The D
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