DRACAENA  , in See also:

• BOTANY (from Gr. l3or6v17, plant; ,66vicety, to graze)

botany, a genus of the natural See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order See also:

• LILIACEAE

Liliaceae, containing about fifty See also:

• SPECIES

species in the warmer parts of the Old See also:

• WORLD

World . They are trees or shrubs with See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long, generally narrow leaves, panicles of small whitish See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers, and berried See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit . The most remarkable species is Dracaena See also:

• DRACO (" the Dragon ")
• DRACO (7th century B.C.)

Draco, the See also:

• DRAGON (Fr. dragon, through Lat. draco, from the Greek; connected with SEpeoµay " see," and interpreted as " sharp-sighted "; O.H. Ger. tracho, dracho, M.H.G. trache, Mod. Ger. Drachen; A.S. draca, hence the equivalent English form " drake," " fire-drake,

dragon-See also:

• TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
• TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )

tree of the See also:

• CANARY
• CANARY (Serinus canarius)

Canary Isles, which reaches a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• SIZE

size and See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age . The famous specimen in See also:

• TENERIFFE [Tenerife]

Teneriffe, which was blown down by a See also:

• HURRICANE

hurricane in 1868, when measured by See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander von See also:

• HUMBOLDT, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ALEXANDER, BARON
• HUMBOLDT, KARL WILHELM VON (1767-1835)

Humboldt, was 70 ft. high, with a circumference of 45 ft. several feet above the ground . A See also:

• RESIN (through O.Fr. resine, modern reline, from Lat. resina, prcbably Latinized from Greek Pirivrt, resin)

resin exuding from the See also:

• TRUNK (Fr. tronc, Lat. truncus, cut off, maimed)

trunk is known as dragon's See also:

• BLOOD

blood (q.v.) . Many of the cultivated so-called Dracaenas belong to the closely-allied genus Cordyline . They are grown for the beauty of See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour and variegation of their foliage and are extremely useful as decorative See also:

• STOVE

stove See also:

• PLANTS

plants or summer greenhouse plants, or for See also:

• ROOM

room and table decoration . They are easy to grow and may be increased by cuttings planted in sandy See also:

• SOIL

soil in a temperature of from 65° to 70° by See also:

• NIGHT

night, the See also:

• SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring being the best See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time for See also:

• PROPAGATION

propagation . The old stems laid See also:

• FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat in a propagating See also:

• FRAME

frame will push See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young shoots, which may be taken off with a See also:

• HEEL

heel when 2 or 3 in. long, and planted in sandy See also:

• PEAT (possibly connected with Med. Lat. petia, pecia, piece, ultimately of Celtic origin; cf. O. Celt. pet, O. Ir. pit, Welsh peth, portion)

peat in 3-in. pots; the tops can also be taken off and struck . The established plants do best in fibry peat made porous by See also:

• SAND
• SAND, GEORGE (1804-1876)

sand . In summer they should have a See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day temperature of 750, and in_ See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter one of 65° . Shift as required, using coarser soil as the pots become larger .

By the end of the summer the small cuttings will have made niceplants, and in the spring following they can be kept growing by the use of manure See also:

• WATER

water twice a See also:

• WEEK (from A.S. wicu, Germanic *wikon, probably=change, turn)

week . Those intended for the conservatory should be gradually inured to more See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

air by See also:

• MID

mid-summer, but kept out of See also:

• COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold See also:

• DRAUGHTS (from AS. dragan, to draw)

draughts . When the plants get too large they can be headed down and the tops used for cuttings . A large number of the See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden species of Dracaena are varieties of Cordyline terminalis . D . Goldieana is a grandly variegated species from See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west tropical See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa, and requires more See also:

• HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat .