290 THE GARDENER. [June i88i. 



F. G. S. — Your Begonia seed may have been covered too deeply. \Ve never 

 cover at all. Seed saved from some varieties — such as Monarch, Kallistii, 

 and Charles Raes — we have never been able to get to vegetate, while the seed 

 was as carefully saved and otherwise treated as others that came up by the 

 million. 



Beginner, — Shift immediately the plants are done flowering, and have 

 begun to push young growths. See an article giving every detail of culture 

 in our present issue. 



S. W. — Two of the best Ferns for baskets are Adiantum cuneatum and Pteris 

 scaberula, but you are rather late to make baskets of these this season in the 

 way you propose, unless you have a stock of young plants in small pots. I>oth 

 Ferns named do well in light loam and leaf-mould— about a third of the latter 

 to two-thirds of the former. 



John Gordon. — Your specimens did not reach us till the 16th, and were 

 very much dried up. 1, Cannot recognise ; 2, Adiantum assimile ; 3, Adiantum 

 trapeziforme ; 4, Adiantum coccinum ; 5, Adiantum setulosum ; 6, Habrotham- 

 nus elegan? ; 7, Cannot recognise. 4 and 5 were so shrivelled up that we 

 cannot be certain about them. 



