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the racliis is, like tlie under-surface of the fronds, hairy. The texture of the 

 fronds is rather thin and herbaceous, and the colour a light green. The ultimate 

 segments are from half an inch to three-quarters in breadth, and about half 

 as much in depth, dimidiate, the lower side being nearly straight, and the 

 upper side rounded and also bluntly lobed. The sori are obversely reniform, 

 encircling the base of the hollows cut in the marginal lobes. There is one 

 peculiarity which it shares with A. concinnum — namely, that the basal pinnules 

 are so placed that their inner edge is imbricated over the main rachis. 



The pale green colour, pubescent surface, overlapping pinnules, and com- 

 pound division of the fronds of this fern give it a peculiarly distinct appearance, 

 and our illustration shows that it is not wanting in beauty. It is a native of 

 Peru, and Columbia, and of the Galapagos Islands. — T. Mooee. 



SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE ON NEW GRAPES. 

 HAVE been much interested by Mr. Fowler's remarks on " Some of Our 

 New Grapes " (p. 241) ; and can readily endorse all he has said concerning 

 these. I would even like, if possible, to make his remarks more valuable to 

 your amateur grape-growing readers, by a reference to one other new Grape, 

 now about to be sent out, and which from all points of view, up to the present, 

 seems to possess most promising qualities and characteristics. I refer to the 

 Grape named Waltham Ch-oss, which, as is known, is a white or amber-coloured 

 variety, with long muscat-like berries, of good flavour, of unusually large size, and 

 borne in finely-developed, large- shouldered bunches. This variety, besides being 

 an amber-coloured grape without a muscat flavour, has the good quality of 

 hanging well, and should be chosen as an associate for Lady Downe's seedhng, 

 and others of the class which are planted more especially for being kept later 

 than ordinary. If this Grape maintains its present well-earned good character, a 

 better associate could not be found for our Black Hamburgh Vines, since identical 

 cultural conditions will suit both ahke. — William Earley, Valentines. 



NEW PEAS. 



)UDGING from the number of first-class certificates that have been awarded 

 by the Eoyal Horticultural Society during the last two seasons to New 

 Peas, we may reasonably expect the old sorts to be summarily swept out of 

 cultivation. If a first-class certificate means anything, I think it ought to 

 mean that the variety under notice is an acquisition, and better than all others 

 of the same class. If this is so, there must be some grand things in store for us, 

 and I trust they will turn out to be as good as the Fruit Committee of the Eoyal 

 Horticultural Society have led us to believe they are. 



I am sure no one will dispute with me when I state that we have, of late years, 

 been awfully gulled in this matter of so-called New Peas ; indeed, my experience 

 of even Mr. Laxton's new sorts has more than once led me to the conclusion that, 

 notwithstanding the brilliant descriptions given when first sent out upon trial, 



