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Article: GARDENING : HEARTY, ELEGANT DRACEANA, THY NAME IS `JANET CRAIG'.(L.A. LIFE)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- October 3, 1998
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Byline: Joshua Siskin
Does anyone out there know Janet Craig? She is undoubtedly a woman of distinction. Dracaena deremensis ``Janet Craig,'' named in her honor, was introduced to the nursery trade scarcely more than a decade ago. It is already well on its way to becoming the most popular floor plant in the world.
A floor plant is a tree or treelike species for indoor use that is set on the floor - as opposed to a table plant, which is lower-growing and generally has a clumping, trailing or vining growth habit. The three most commonly seen groups of floor plants are the palms and the ficus, both of which demand excellent light, and the Dracaenas, which ...