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Mar 4, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE 
EARLY / STRAWBERRY 
For 1895. 
STEVENS’ WONDER. 
THE EARLIEST VARIETY IN CULTIVATION, 
AND VERY PROLIFIC, 
Perfame. 
rst-class Certificates, Royal Horticultural Society 
and Royal — Fedex, 1895. See Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
— 1 Journa: of Horticulture, March 14; and The Garden, 
b — ti the whole of ir Stock of this eer — 
Early ¢ have pleasure in offerin 
. ome „ 15s. per dozen, 
9s, per dozen, 
per 1 . 
Read) or delivery early in July. 
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ALMS, FICUS, FERNS, g, in any 
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CYPERUS ALTERNIFOLIUS .. Ps., Gs., De a 
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SCOTLAND. 
Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1895, 
FERNS. 
a were at one time the objects 
oultivators, and if at 
seems have ple 
pensation is to be found in the fact that veal is 
now tempered with knowledge. here is 
ru 
plants than there used to be, a yearning to know 
the how, why, and wherefore of the wonderful 
variation they presen 
The life-history of iis plants is better under- 
stood than it was, The original discovery of the 
sexual organs erns is quite within the 
memory of the writer of the report Aram — 
we can ourselves remember when a good dea 
reserve was still felt on the part of — in 
accepting the conclusions of Leszoyo-Suminski, 
first made known Not unnaturally, if 
the botanists were shy the gardeners were more 
and hesitated still more to accept the new 
Now-a-days, 
80, 
views as to the sexuality of Ferns. 
one of the commonest labo 
tyros is the search for the “antheri 
the “archegonia” on the “ 
the parent ser A but they 
small green plates whioh are familiar to i 
growers which constitute the “prothalli.” 
the — — — thts te 
numerous 
formed 
funotion to stamens, pep umerous ee 
g 
ts case, it makes 
its way, sided by fine motile cilia to the 
archegonium, enters it, and impregnates the 
germ cell, which develops into an embryo 
plant. This embryo plant ultimately develops 
into the ordinary or Fern-plant, bearing spores, 
and so the cycle is completed. The prothallus 
led g 
to 
to non-botanical readers in order that we : 
the better explain to them the signifiesnoe 6 
Mr. cour toa t ; 
