. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. DRACiBNA MANDAIANA Commercial Dracaenas. Botanists in tlieir wisdom do not class all the plants known to florists as dracEenas in tnis genus, but call some of them cordylines. Necessary as this may be to properly classify the various plants florists find it far more simple to stick to the name dra- csena, and in this we but follow the custom of the trade. All are useful plants, easily grown, propagated read- ily, usually either from cuttings or seed, and presenting a good return for the little skill and care neces
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. DRACiBNA MANDAIANA Commercial Dracaenas. Botanists in tlieir wisdom do not class all the plants known to florists as dracEenas in tnis genus, but call some of them cordylines. Necessary as this may be to properly classify the various plants florists find it far more simple to stick to the name dra- csena, and in this we but follow the custom of the trade. All are useful plants, easily grown, propagated read- ily, usually either from cuttings or seed, and presenting a good return for the little skill and care necessary to do them well. To take the culture of the long stemmed, erect-growing kinds first, of which D. terminalis, D. Mas- sangeana and D. fragrans are well known types, it may be said that any- one with any knowledge of plant grow- ing, no matter how rudimentary, can take it up with every prospect of suc- cess. The stems of many of these kinds are often offered to the trade and these can either be cut up in short lengths, containing one or two eyes, and the pieces inserted as cuttings or they can be laid lengthwise on a bed of sphagnum moss and covered with the same material to start shoots that are eventually cut off and potted. In either case a bottom heat of about 85° to 90° should be given and there will soon be signs of Taking old leggy specimens, such as are frequently seen around green- houses, the usual proceeding is to cut a niche all around under the tuft of leaves at the top, moss the stems and eventually, when rooted, cut off and pot the head. This is all right for the new plant, i. e., the top—but in the process the stem below hardens and has either to be thrown away or put in heat to start growths for cuttings. We prefer cutting the head off first and rooting it either over heat in a sand bed or in a bottle of water, then cutting up the stem into cuttings as noted above and leaving the bottom to start growing and make a new plant. However, any of these
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