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fSPLENIUM alatum (57).— Eor filling a basket in the 

 stove this is one of the most suitable ferns, and it makes 

 a pleasing object on a rockery. Its brilliant green colour 

 and graceful outlines render it distinguishable amongst 

 many. In the greenhouse it prospers during the summer, 

 but should be in the stove during winter. 



58. Asplenium appendiculatum. — The fronds are subtripinnate, of 

 a fine dark green colour ; a fine fern for the cool fernery. 



59. Asplenium auritum. — A pretty light green stove fern, with 

 tapering fronds, the lowest pinna? being distinctly eared. Admirable 

 for a fern case. 



ASPLENIUM ALATUM. 



60. Asplenium JBelangeri. — A favourite for exhibiting, and 

 essential to a first-class collection. The colour is a rich green ; the 

 general outlines plumy ; the fronds are proliferous. An evergreen 

 stove fern. 



61. Asplenium bulbiferum. — Undoubtedly one of the finest of the 

 family, and one of the best for a beginner, whether to grow for exhi- 

 bition, or to treat with such neglect as ferns are subject to. The 

 fronds grow to eighteen inches in length, and become completely 

 covered with tiny young plants, which weigh them down with 



