THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 8L 



LASTREA DILATATA. 



IHIS very handsome sub-evergreen fernery plant, com- 

 monly called the broad prickly-toothed buckler fern, 

 requires no skill in its cultivation, preferring a shady 

 situation and decayed leaves, yet growing well in any 

 kind of soil. In woods of many years' standing, where 

 subsoil is a cold clay, the roots spread themselves in the 

 decayed leaves close to the surface, so that the plants can be 

 removed by merely pulling at the fronds. It is commonly found in 

 the English counties of Sussex, Surrey, Essex, Oxfordshire, Norfolk, 

 Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, 

 Monmouthshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Cheshire, Stafford- 

 shire, Shropshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, 

 Leicestershire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Westmoreland, Durham, 

 Cumberland, Northumberland, Cornwall, Devonshire, Somersetshire, 

 Hampshire, and Wiltshire. In Wales it is found in Denbighshire, 

 Flintshire, Merionethshire, Carnarvonshire, Pembrokeshire, Cardi- 

 ganshire, Glamorganshire, Radnorshire, and Brecknockshire. In 

 Scotland it is generally distributed through Dumfriesshire, Lanark- 

 shire, Roxburghshire, Berwickshire, Edinburghshire, Morayshire, 

 Inverness-shire, Banffshire, Kincardineshire, Aberdeenshire, Forfar- 

 shire, Perthshire, Stirlingshire, Clackmannanshire, Kinross-shire, 

 Dumbartonshire, Fifeshire, Argyleshire, Ross-shire, and Suther- 

 landshire. It is also found in the Channel Islands, and it is a native 

 also of America and Canada, whilst it is generally distributed 

 through Europe, being found in Lapland, Norway, Spain, Portugal, 

 the Alps, Italy, France, Germany, and Switzerland. It occurs at 

 every elevation, from the sea level to upwards of three thousand six 

 hundred feet in height. The fronds vary from twelve inches to six 

 feet in length, and from four to eighteen inches in breadth. 



EXHIBITION ROSES. 



(Extracted from Mr. Shirley Hibberd's "Amateur's Rose Book." *) 



jjHEN the judges retire from within the ropes, and the eager 

 crowd rushes past the wavering policemen, and the 

 tables are stormed, and the ladies win all the front 

 places, and those who have not lost their hands are busy 

 with notebooks, and from every wave of the great crowd 

 arise splashes of sound resembling such words as " Wonderful ! " 

 " Surprising ! " " Delightful ! " and " Are they real ? " " Yes, they 

 are indeed roses ! " — when these things occur you may conclude you 

 are at a rose show, and perhaps the first question you will ask your- 



* " The Amateur's Rjse Book." By Shirley Hibberd. Crown 8vo, cloth, 

 illustrated with coloured plutes, price 6a. Groombridge and Sons, 5, l'ateruoster 

 Row, London. 



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