for the beauty of form, colour and
variegation of their foliage and are extremely useful as decorative
stove plants or summer greenhouse plants, or for room and table
decoration. They are easy to grow and may be increased by cuttings
planted in sandy soil in a temperature of from 65 deg. to 70 deg. by
night, the spring being the best time for propagation. The old stems
laid flat in a propagating frame will push young shoots, which may be
taken off with a heel when 2 or 3 in. long, and planted in sandy 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 sand. In summer they should
have a day temperature of 75 deg., and in winter one of 65 deg.. Shift
as required, using coarser soil as the pots become larger. By the end of
the summer the small cuttings will have made nice plants, and in the
spring following they can be kept growing by the use of manure water
twice a week. Those intended for the conservatory should be gradually
inured to more air by midsummer, but kept out of cold draughts. When the
plants get too large they can be headed down and the tops used for
cuttings.

A large number of the garden species of Dracaena are varieties of
_Cordyline terminalis. D. Goldieana_ is a grandly variegated species
from west tropical Africa, and requires more heat.

DRACHMANN, HOLGER HENRIK HERBOLDT (1846-1908), Danish poet and
dramatist, son of Dr A. G. Drachmann, a physician of Copenhagen, whose
family was of German extraction, was born in Copenhagen on the 9th of
October 1846. Owing to the early death of his mother, who was a Dane,
the child was left much to his own devices. He soon developed a fondness
for semi-poetical performances, and loved to organize among his
companions heroic games, in which he himself took such parts as those of
Tordenskjold and Niels Juul. His studies were belated, and he did not
enter the university until 1865, leaving it in 1866 to become a student
in the Academy of Fine Arts. From 1866 to 1870 he was learning, under
Professor Sorensen, to become a marine painter, and not without success.
But about the latter date he came under the influence of Georg Brandes,
and, without abandoning art, he began to give himself more and more to
literature. At various periods he travelled very extensively in England,
Scotland, France, Spain and Italy, and his literary career began by his
sending letters about his journeys to the Danish ne