1870.] NE PLUS ULTRA STEAWBEEKY, ADIANTUM HENSLOVIANUM. 277 



specimens of Pinsapo coming on in sheltered places, where they are protected by 

 other trees from driving blasts and sleety showers, which in spring — just at the 

 time when growth is being excited — come sweeping over the plain. 



It is notable that in our exposed specimens of Pinsapo we generally find the 

 side exposed to the south-west suffer most, and the effect left upon the young 

 bud by the driving sleet or wave of cold is just as if the buds were exposed to a 

 scaring heat, and were left on the plant red and crisp, and which, unless picked 

 off by the hand, will remain on the plant for years after. — Wm. Miller, Combe 

 Ahheij Gardens. 



NE PLUS ULTRA STRAWBERRY. 



% 





N addition to the Strawberries mentioned by Mr. J. Powell in the Florist 

 dijtj (p. 256), I can recommend the variety named at the head of this paper. 

 ^§ It is not quite so early as Keens' Seedling, but bears much larger and finer 

 'i^ fruit, and out of doors is a very heavy cropper. It was exhibited as a 

 seedling a few years ago, at the York Gala, by Mr. Browtho, of Beverley, and 

 received a certificate from the judges and some of the leading horticulturists 

 present on that occasion. This Ne Plus Ultra is a famous market-gardeners' 

 Strawberry, but I believe it has not yet got into cultivation so largely as it 

 deserves. I have distributed it amongst a few of my friends, but judging by the 

 inquiries made about it at the Leeds and York Shows, where I exhibited it in 

 June last, I do not think it is at all generally known. I have ordered a supply 

 of I^i Grosse Sucree, to try it for early forcing, as from the description given it 

 seems a very desirable variety to grow in early vineries and peach-liouscs. — John 

 Clark, Sfudlei/ liO>/al. 



ADIANTUM HENSLOVIANUM. 



WITH AN illustration. 



III3 very boautifal addition to our cultivated Maidenhair Ferns has been 

 introduced from Peru by the Messrs. Veitch and Sons, who have com- 

 '^^ municated the specimen here figured. The plant has borne one or two 

 (£^ other names, that of A. scssitifolium having been given to it by Sir W. J. 

 Hooker, and that of A. Tvokheithachn Ijy the traveller Moritz ; and it was not till 

 long after the former of these was published that it was known to be the same 

 species which Dr. Hooker had previously named after the late Professor Ilenslow. 

 Such, however, proves to be the case, and consequently by right of priority the 

 name A. TIenslovianum is retained. 



As an ornamental stove evergreen fern, it must be regarded as a decided acqui- 

 sition, quite distinct in aspect from all other Adia)itii7ns, and as charming as any of 

 them. Oar plate gives a very good idea of the fronds of moderately developed 

 plants. When of full stature they are from 2 ft. to 3 ft. in height, proportion- 

 ately broader, and with the lower pinnoe slightly branched, thus becoming 

 tripinnate. The stipe is of moderate length, erect, dark brown, glossy, while 



