1 2 Dwelling- houses. 



which in favourable circumstances come in abundance 

 along the edges of the fronds. Most ferns like rather 

 shady situations and peaty mould, and when grown 

 inside windows they may be moved back into the 

 room in severe weather ; and always suitable venti- 

 lation should be attended to. 



Some peculiarly graceful and elegant kinds of the 

 group called Todea, natives of South Africa, New 

 Zealand, and New Holland, which have hitherto 

 been costly and rather rare, are now imported in 

 considerable numbers. Todea pelucida and T. superla 

 are, amongst others, most generally known and ad- 

 mired ; and whjlst in their native wilds they attain 

 a height of many feet, they are amongst us as pot 

 plants in a young state, and quite gems of easy 

 management. They seem to luxuriate in warm 

 moisture and subdued light, but bear a cold or cool 

 place and a dark situation. We see them in much 

 beauty in pots standing in a few inches of water in 

 a pan or saucer, covered with a glass-bell or frame, 

 and daily sprinkled overhead. The Gardener's Re- 

 cord for August, 1876, page 549, quoting from The 

 Garden, describes a flourishing plant, nearly fill- 

 ing a 24-inch bell-glass, in a room where it had been 

 for four years. At the commencement of that time 

 this plant, well named superb, was a tiny seedling, 

 with but a couple of fronds scarcely one inch long, 

 and at the close it had upwards of fifty healthy 

 fronds, and meantime it produced some seedlings. It 

 grows in a 3-inch pot, over whose edges rootlets ramble 



