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that careful cultivation of it would yield a host of new and charming 
novelties, provided—always provided—that it be done on right lines. 
; eS 
a 
A A+B B 
Hic. 111.—Urrrr nat: ScoLopENDRIUM 
VULGARE CRISPUM FERTILE (A) x8. v. MuRIcATUM (B). 
Resutr or Cross (A+B). 
Lower HALF: ATHYRIUM FILIX 
F@:MINA CONGESTUM (A) x A. F. FE, EXCURRENS (B). 
Resutr or Cross (A+B). 
Into the question of simple crosses between varieties I do not propose 
to enter, space prohibiting, though to me and to British Fern specialists 
generally there is a wide and fertile field still but’ partly cultivated. 1 
