THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



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NEPHRODIUM MOLLE, var. CORYMBIFERUM. 



This is a fast growing, profusely crested 

 greenhouse fern, bold, and showy in its 

 massive corymbs and vivid green colour. 

 The crests are very large and dense, and 

 often as broad as the widest part of the 

 fronds, and they are of firm substance. It is 

 an evergreen, and attains three feet in hcigth ; 

 hence, for specimen culture and exhibition 

 and decorative purposes, this is the most 

 acceptable fern novelty of the season, and 

 deserves a place in every collection. The 



fronds, one of them branching into six main 

 divisions, and most densely crested at the 

 points. As Nephrodlum molle is a thoroughly 

 greenhouse plant, this variety will doubtless 

 prove equally hardy, but in the stove it 

 may be expected to attain to still finer 

 dimensions. Of its robustness we are quite 

 satisfied, and heartily recommend it accor- 

 dingly, but no description or engraving can 

 convey an adequate idea of its distinct and 

 peculiar beauty. Mr. Sim, of Foot's Cray, 



figure is from a plant which was turned out j Kent, possesses the entire stock, and is now 

 in a rockery under glass in July last, which sending out plants. [Price 15s. each.] 

 has, since then, thrown up three splendid | 



PRESERVATION OF BEDDING-PLANTS. 



Fity a poor florist, who, without any Wal- 

 tonian case, or means of " starting into 

 growth," in February or March ; without 

 any greenhouse, or cold-pit, or frame of any 

 kind, except a few hand-glasses, and whose 

 artificial heat is limited to an April hot-bed, 

 arched over for annuals, wishes, nevertheless, 

 to bed out, in as good condition as possible, 

 a few horseshoe and other geraniums, cal- 

 ceolarias, and verbenas, propagated from his 



own stock of this year, which are to be kept 

 over the winter, in the windows of spare 

 rooms. 



1 take it for granted, that if I, and others 

 similarly situated, had geraniums kept 

 hung by the heels, in bunches, as those Mr. 

 Shirley Hibberd made so much of, by put- 

 ting them round the sides of his "Waltonian 

 case, that we could do nothing with them, 

 except plant out the old plants themselves, 



