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inserted singly in well-drained thumb-pots, the cuttings being firmly secured in 

 the sand. They are to be well watered, and the pots plunged in a genial bottom- 

 heat. For the exclusion of air, I prefer a glass case, but failing this, bell- 

 glasses will do ; ventilate only to prevent damping-off, and in the course of 

 three weeks they will have emitted roots. When this is found to be the case, 

 gradually expose them to the air, and when well established, shift them into 

 4-in. pots ; but in this be guided according to the size and strength of the plant. 

 I prefer a compost of two parts turfy loam, one part peat and leaf soil, and one 

 part silver sand and charcoal. After potting, plunge the pots in bottom-heat, 

 and maintain a moist growing atmosphere, in which they make rapid progress, 

 and soon require a second shift. At this second potting, use the same kind of 

 compost as before, with the addition of a little well-decomposed manure which 

 has been previously dried, and prepared for use ; place the plants in the same 

 temperature as before until established ; and then gradually harden them off, 

 and remove them to a cooler house, keeping them, however, near to the glass. 

 Syringe twice daily, and give frequent applications of clear liquid manure. The 

 size of the pots into which they are ultimately shifted must, in a great measure, 

 depend on the purposes for which they are required ; but for general use, I find 

 the sizes already mentioned to answer well. 



In the culture of these plants, one of the principal points by which to secure 

 success, is to guard against sudden checks, which induce premature flowering, and 

 thus prevent a full development of their growth, and considerably mar their 

 ultimate beauty. The flower-stems may be pinched off in the earlier stages as 

 they appear, but it should be remembered that the first formed are generally the 

 finest individually. Green-fly is sometimes troublesome, but may be easily 

 eradicated by a timely application of the usual remedies. 



Withy Court. George V/estland. 



ADIANTUM VEITCHIANUM. 



; HIS new species of Maidenhair Fern is one of the many fine introductions 

 of the Messrs. Veitch and Sons of Chelsea, through their collector, the 

 late Mr. E. Pearce, who found it at Muxia, in the Peruvian Andes. It has 

 been recently described in the Gardeners Chronicle under the name here 

 adopted, and which has been given to it in acknowledgment of the many 

 valuable novelties, with which the Messrs. Veitch have enriched our collections of 

 garden exotics. 



The plant forms a most desirable acquisition amongst the numerous kinds 

 already in cultivation. It bears some resemblance both to Adiantum Galeottia- 

 num and Adiantum sinuosum, especially in its mode of branching ; but it is more 

 slender than either, and has neither the entire orbicular cordate pinnules of the 

 former, nor the cornute-margined, deeply-lobed pinnules of the latter. It is of 

 dwarf habit, growing some 8 or 10 in. in height, of which about one-half is taken 



