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fleshy ones pegged down on the surface, will scon take 

 hold and make good plants. 



Under glass, with pot culture, the same remarks apply. 

 Pots and staging should be clean, and if, as is only too 

 frequently the case, watering has been neglected, a 

 thorough soaking for an hour or two is necessary to give 

 the droughted specimens a chance of recovery. 



Those who are troubled with that worst of pests, the 

 Weevil, should narrowly examine the ferns, especially 

 Hartstongues, and if any show signs of wilted or loose 

 fronds they must be turned out, and the probable brood 

 of fat white grubs destroyed. It may even be necessary to 

 wash the soil entirely away and pull the plant to pieces, 

 since the grubs burrow into the very caudex itself, and 

 unless extracted will inevitably complete its destruction, 

 and not only that, but equally inevitably develop into a 

 brood of frond-devouring beetles in the coming season. 



Baby plants resulting from last season's spore sowings 

 may now with advantage be pricked out into pans an inch 

 or two apart, or, if already in thumbs, transferred to 

 larger pots. Naturally, for the reasons given above, the 

 present time is the best for acquiring fresh varieties, since 

 packing and transport can be effected with impunity and 

 without damage. The installation of new rockeries or 

 beds cannot also be effected under more favourable 

 conditions, since we have the whole of the growing season 

 in front of us, and the mild spring conditions of showery 

 cool weather are the ideal ones for giving a fair start with- 

 out any handicap whatever. If spores have been gathered 

 and stored from last season, they too may be sown now, as 

 the next best time to that immediately following their 

 ripening in late June or July. 



THE ANGULARE PULCHERRIMUMS. 



These beautiful and interesting forms are but little 

 known to the collector and cultivator of the present day, 

 as they are rarely to be found in collections, and have not 



