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Adiantum amabile is a very handsome species, with elegant light 
green fronds, which average fifteen inches in length by ten inches 
in width. Although less valuable than the preceding form, it is 
sufficiently beautiful to justify its admission into the choicest collec- 
tion of stove ferns. 
Adiantum Hendersoni is an exceedingly handsome species, with 
medium sized fronds of a rich bronzy crimson colour when young, 
changing, as they acquire age, to deep green. 
Adiantum peruvianum is alike remarkable for its noble aspect 
and graceful habit. The fronds attain a length ranging from two to 
three feet, and are gracefully pendant. It isa fine fern for large 
houses. 
Alsophila australis Williamsi has been aptly designated the 
“Weeping Tree Fern,” for the broad, deep green fronds are grace- 
fully pendant, and form umbrella-like heads. The fronds assume 
the pendant state whilst quite young, and as small plants may be 
had for a guinea orso, it is within the reach of most amateurs. 
This, it may be proper to add, is a small sum for ferns of arbores- 
cent habit. 
Davallia Mooreana, like Adiantum gracillimum, is an extremely 
valuable introduction, and elegant as are most of the species, com- 
prising the genus to which it belongs, it must be considered the 
most beautiful. The fronds attain a length ranging from one to 
three feet, and a width ranging from eight inches to two feet, are 
triangular and pointed, of most graceful arching habit, and elegantly 
eut into a multitude of small segments. Small plants are extremely 
valuable for the dinner table, and large specimens are very telling in 
competitive groups, whilst in the fernery, plants of all sizes are very 
attractive. It is of very rapid growth, and cheap. 
Davallia Tyermanni is as distinct from the preceding species as 
it well can be; for instead of having tall, spreading fronds, it is very 
dwarf and compact in growth. It is a pretty little species, well 
deserving of cultivation. 
Dictyogramima japonica variegata, a remarkably handsome green- 
house fern of medium growth, with distinctly variegated fronds. 
The latter range from twelve to eighteen inches in length, are 
farnished with one or two pair of linear-lanceolate pinne and a 
somewhat longer terminal one. As the plants acquire age, the 
pinne divide, and the fronds become bipinnate. Along each side of 
the midrib are yellowish green blotches, which gives the surface of 
the frond a variegation very distinct. 
Goniophlebiwm glaucophyllwm is a very handsome stove fern, well 
adapted for baskets. The fronds are oblong lanceolate, gracefully 
pendant, and of a rich glaucous green hue. It is a decided acquisi- 
tion amongst really first-class basket ferns, of which the number is 
not over large. 
Gymnogramma decomposita belongs to the class popularly known 
as “Gold Ferns,” and is remarkable for its elegant habit and free 
growth. ‘he fronds are triangular, much divided, and the under- 
side is covered with a pale yellow powder. This species will be 
found of immense value to cultivators who are unable to produce 
June. 
