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golden and silver veins on purplish or rich green 

 ground. It is well to nip off the flower-stem before 

 it matures its bloom, for flowering so exhausts the 

 plant as to endanger its damping off. "With us 

 these plants are generally grown in hot-houses, but 

 men of experience think they are over-cooked, and 

 that many species could be managed in a glazed 

 frame in an ordinary room. The variety -4. setaceus, 

 from a coolish region of Ceylon, dislikes much heat, 

 and probably others are congenial in this respect. 

 The family in general like a sunny aspect, with par- 

 tial shade from glaring sun. Some of these and 

 kindred plants are figured in the fourth volume of 

 Blume's Flora Jara>. 



Sphagnum and sand form proper soil ; and culture 

 of these plants in rooms, as of Piperomias, above- 

 mentioned, seems to pleasingly contrast with that of 

 Trichomanes and others of that group, so as to be 

 worthy of remark. The Killarney fern has lived for 

 years in a large, wide-mouthed bottle or glass jar, 

 without water being once added to what it had when 

 first inclosed, whilst some of those orchids of which 

 we speak require constant attention. Some invalid?, 

 and other persons who enjoy such room ornaments, 

 like the frequent occupation which the one kind of 

 plants requires and affords, whilst there are many peo- 

 ple who admire what need but little care, and who 

 could not bestow anything like regular daily atten- 

 tion. 



Liliaceous Plants. Notwithstanding the longtime 



