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when the frame was filled, it was covered with a light after 

 giving the contents a good soaking with water. At one 

 time we had three gross of tumblers so employed. 



The varieties treated were P. aaikatum and angulare 

 Lastreas, filix and pseudo mas, A. f.f. and Scol. vuJgave^ the 

 latter being the simplest to deal with, as you can tear them 

 to pieces anyhow, and every piece which has any life in it 

 will grow if treated properly. Taking the Scolopendvinms 

 first, a number of Moly's vamo cvistatwii (figured in Jones's 

 '* Nature Prints ") have been raised from bases. The parent 

 plant was in a very poor condition, but was recognizable 

 (I have also raised from this a number of fine varieties from 

 spores). 



Another form of Scot. v. cvistatuin turned up, Sinum, 

 various peraferens, some fine undulatums, one a giant form, 

 two fine projectums, a crispum called by Moly splendens, 

 which Mr. Cordery (Messrs. May's foreman) declares to 

 be as fine as Wills', a robust and broad crispum beauti- 

 fully marbled with white (which Mr. Moly told me of, but 

 could not find, except that he knew it was growing by the 

 side of a path which was quite smothered up by Anemone 

 Japonica and young sycamores), the old plant showing 

 full character, and the young plants from bases an occa- 

 sional frond, and another Scclopendriiun with white variega- 

 tion, which I saw in striking form, but which has not yet 

 displayed more than traces of character. There were also- 

 a very robust muricatum, a narrow undulate form called 

 abruptum, and other less interesting varieties. The 

 Athyvinms have given poor results, a variety called Trifidum 

 by Moly is large and very broad, but otherwise almost 

 normal. Several snh-phimose forms have been transferred 

 to hedge banks, and a variety called by the raiser Miserahile 

 Visti to the dust heap, save for a solitary specimen retained 

 as a souvenir to mark the frailty of its kind. 



In Lastreas Filix mas and pseudo mas little more than 

 known forms turned up save three interesting grandiceps 

 and crested forms found by Moly at Rousden, Chard, and 



