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Title: Cassell's popular gardening
Identifier: cassellspopularg00fish_0 (find matches)
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Fish, David Taylor, 1824-1901; Fish, D. T. (David Taylor), 1824-1901
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: London ; New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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HOT-HOUSE OR STOVE PLANTS. 357 flesh - colour, inside of tube yellow. Spring and summer. D. rosacea — flowers soft pink flushed with rose, inside of tube yellow,with a deep rose-coloured ring at the moutb. Summer. Dipteracanthus.—A genus now referred to Ru- ellxa; it contains numerous weedy-looking plants; some few kinds, however, are extremely beautiful. They are all easily managed, and should be treated like other AcanthadSjSuch as Eranthemum. Inter- miediate House. I>. aflinis—a beautiful spe- cies, which is, however, a rather shy bloomer, and requires frequent stop- ping of the young shoots to produce a handsome specimen. Leaves ovate- acute, deep green; flowers large and funnel-shaped, having a long slender tube, and large broad five- lobed limb ; stamens ex- serted, of a imiform rich scarlet. Spring and summer months. Brazil. D. calvescens — leaves somewhat oblong, acumi- nate, deep green above, paler and tinged with reddish - pui-ple below. Flowers funnel - shai^ed, with a spreading limb, the lobes prettily toothed on the edge, soft lUac. Winter months. Eio Ja- neiro, Brazil. D. Herbstii—this is one of the grandest plants in the order of Acanthads. It is a much-branclied shrub, attaining a height of three or four feet, but most handsome when smaller. Leaves six to seven inches long and two broad, ob- long lanceolate, deep green above, the midrib orna- mented with a narrow band of white on either side, the reverse is dull reddish-purple. Flowers produced in great profu- sion from the axils of the leaves., tubes very long and slender, suddenly en- larging, rosy-puri3le, limb spreading.thelobes deeply bifid, and pure white. All the aiatumn and winter. Brazil. Dracaena (Calodracon),—The plants known as Dracaenas were formerly a very large genus, includ- ing many species now known under separate names; and many plants now termed Cordylines are still popu- larly known as Dracaenas; one genus has been some- what recently separated from the crowd of species, and established under the name of Calodracon. But as it will be long before the horticultural public will give up the old names, Dracmna is still retained here. Calodracons, or Dracajnas, have increased in numbers so much during the last quarter of a century as to be almost innumerable; this has come about through the thorough exploration of the South Sea Islands, and
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DiONaiA MUSCIPULA. from cross-breeding at home, so that it is not possible to do justice to the family in the limited selection here adopted. Amongst the numerous forms, besides those here briefly described, may be enumerated— amplxata, anerleyensis, bellida, mirabilis, Mrs. Baicse^ Mrs. J^reake, Mrs. Wills, Menardice, rosacea, Scottice, Sydncyi, Thomsonii. Those figured do not belong to the true Calodracon sec- tion, but to the larger genus of Cordylines, under the section of Di'accenopsis. The members of this genus are undoubtedly (next to Palms) the most useful we have for room decoration, whilst as ornaments for the stove, associated with Crotons, Dieffenbachias, and such- like plants, the effect produced is quite equal to that of a house of flowering plants ; and to those who admit any other than green upon the dinner - table they are invaluable. Pot in a compost con- sisting of about two parts loam, one of peat, and some sharp sand, drain well, and water freely. These plants do not require so much ex- posure to the sun as Crotons. D. amabilis—a bold form with bright green leaves, suffused with white and tinged with rosy-pink. D. amboynensis — leaves deep metallic-green, mar- gined with rosy - car- mine. D. Elizabethae — habit dense, leaves broad, re- curved, when young creamy white flushed with pink, changing to dark bronzy - green streaked with rosy-crimson. D. Hendersonii — leaves large, light green, mar- bled, flaked, and freckled with white, rose, and pink. D. Laingi—a superb variety, leaves, when young, white, suifused with rosy-pink, changing to bright green, flaked, bordered, and streaked vnth white, and suffused with carmine. D. Macarthurii — a small- T>. Bausei — a splendid form, leaves closely set, recurved, ground deep bronzy-green, and flaked with rosy-crimson. D. Cooperii—leaves broad, pendent, when young wholly reddish - crimson, when aged deep metallic bronze, crimson streaks and flakes. D. Diana—leaves recurved, when young creamy-rose, changing to deep green, flaked and streaked with crimson and pink. D. elegantissima — leaves narrow, recurved, deep bronzy - green, margined with crimson.

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