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As to culture this Fern is somewhat impatient, and I 

 cannot help thinking that the methods usually employed 

 are wrong. In nature one never sees this Fern on the 

 tops of walls, etc., but always on the sides, i.e. horizontally ; 

 whereas, most of us, if we attempt transplantation, especially 

 in pots, invariably set it up in a. perpendicular position. 



In ** British Ferns and their Varieties," by C. T. Druery, 

 F.L.S., V.M.H., some excellent illustrations may be 

 found, but the author is not particularly enamoured of this 

 " remarkable Fern," due, no doubt, to the difficulty before- 

 mentioned of its non-amenity to successful cultivation. 



C. B. Green. 



NOTES ON MR. T. E. KENWOOD'S 

 COLLECTION. 



Having been commanded — and it really was a command 

 — by our worthy Editor to write something for the ''Gazette " 

 I must comply, although but a bad writer, nevertheless, I 

 will do my best, feeling sure a charitable construction will 

 be put upon my poor and enforced efforts. 



A stern injunction to say something about my 

 Polypodiums must in all humility be obeyed. First of all, 

 then, the majority of my Polypods are grown in a bed in 

 a span roof greenhouse, which is i 5 feet long, and 9 feet 

 wide, and which is ventilated along the ridge. This bed 

 was made up of loam, decayed leaves, and old mortar 

 rubbish, on top of this a fair sprinkling of bone dust was 

 placed, then about 4 inches of pure leaf mould (fortunately 

 I was able to get good decayed oak leaves). Into this 

 the ferns were planted, and having received a good soaking 

 were left alone for a time. I may say the bed is slightly 

 sloping, and kept in position by boards. The boards are 

 a mistake which, I hope, another day to rectify by a brick 

 wall. In due course the ferns commenced to grow, and in 



