Plate 429. 

 ADIANTUM FARLEYENSE. 



The very extensive demand that there is for Ferns, and the 

 very prominent position that they hold in all well ordered 

 establishments, will be a sufficient reason for our (after a 

 lapse of many years) again figuring one of their most beautiful 

 forms ; wherever there is a stove or greenhouse, one is sure, 

 in the present day, to meet with some of them, while Ferneries 

 both exotic and hardy, are to be seen everywhere ; few amateurs, 

 indeed, are able to have them in such excellence as Mr. 

 Bewley of Blackrock, near Dublin, but every one may grow 

 some, and they are always sought after. 



Perhaps there is no family amongst them more generally 

 admu-ed than the Adianliims ; our own native A. capillus veneris, 

 or Maidenhair, is very beautiful, and when seen, as we have 

 seen it, in rich profusion in the Isles of Arran, off' the coast of 

 Cfalway, one feels that it is very difficult to see anything 

 more graceful. Then A. cuneatuiii is one of the most useful 

 plants that we possess ; beautiful in itself, it is so admirably 

 adapted for bouquets, that nothing seems to take its place, 

 while it is so accommodating in its habits, that for two out of 

 the three years in which a prize was offered at the Eoyal 

 Horticultural Society for a plant grown in a drawing-room, it 

 took the first prize. 



Adiuntum Furleyeme, however, at present stands unrivalled 

 in this beautiful and numerous class for its wonderful beauty 

 and gracefulness ; there is a softness and tenderness about it, 



