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are aware. Then we have the imdtilohiun section, among 

 which there are some very fine forms. Here the pinnules 

 are divided into rounded lobes and the fronds assume a 

 tripinnate character. 



At Kew both sections are well represented and looked 

 wonderfully satisfactory in October last, the season not- 

 withstanding. I particularly noted tvipinnaUim. 



C. B. Green. 

 (To be cofitinued .) 



''ROUND MY FERNERY." 



One of the chief delights of the Fern lover who possesses 

 a good collection is to receive a visit from a sympathetic 

 and appreciative fellow hobbyist and to take him round, 

 and, without a fear of boring him, dilate upon the 

 peculiarities and the histories of his specialities and acquisi- 

 tions. In this way there is always something to be 

 mutually learnt by the comparison of experiences, and 

 although it is not quite the same thing to address such 

 sympathetic spirits by mere pen and ink, in the absence of 

 the precious pets, the ferns themselves, there is a pleasure 

 in undertaking such a task, and quite possibly a sympa- 

 thetic one is evolved on the part of the reader or readers. 

 My Fernery then, or rather my collection, consists of three 

 departments, viz. a cold conservatory on the north side of 

 the house about 23 feet by 14 feet, a garden about 80 feet 

 by 30 feet, and a spare north room in the dwelling house, 

 in which there is a Wardian case for spore culture. In the 

 conservatory, in some 500 pots of various dimensions, there 

 are some hundreds of the choicest varieties mostly of the 

 more delicate structural kind which are the better for 

 protection, while in the open there are some hundreds of 

 plants, embracing a large number of Ferns, raised from 

 spores and otherwise acquired, which better stand the 

 influence of sun and wind. The first thing we note on 

 entering the conservatory from the house is an immense 

 plant of the original A . f.f. pUimosuui Dviievy, four feet high 



