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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
8 inches or so, has the effect of drawing the 
plants a little, and making them decumbent 
instead upright, with remarkably good 
effect. As few British Ferns are naturally 
decumbent, the highest wall-pocket of all 
ground, е quite 7 feet long, until a 
specially severe winter killed it. At the foot of 
this wall is a low rockery, except in the centre, 
where a sunken petroleum-barrel forms a rock- 
fringed pool, into which the rain-water from 
d 
of the house, and is about 18 inches high, next 
a 2-foot tiled path (porous red-and- white 
tiles), We h runs round a central rockery 
shape, and built up of fairly bold 
hinks 1 e whole 
seedlings of various species, Asplenium Tri- 
chomanes especially. Scolopendriums appear 
in any quantity, and have constantly to be 
es 
Of specimen 
plants only two are really planted in this central 
mound; the King of the Male Ferns, with a 
the Victoria Lady Fern, a bit of the original, 
which is no less than 3 feet 6 inches long, being 
a single crown, with a distinct trunk, 
side-wall to the left is really the garden wall, 
surmounted by a wooden one carrying the roof ; 
the opposite wall is red brick, and of the same 
height, 7 feet, so that there is no side-light 
whatever. Along the garden wall is erected a 
long slate trough, composed of roof-slates, sup- 
at their lower edges on driven 
into the wall, and from t edg 
suspended by stout copper-wire attach 
to hooks driven into the woodwork. This trough, 
which is well drained, accommodates at the 
level of the eye, а considerable number of choice 
and dwarf Ferns at a most convenient level for 
their examination 
Wherever convenient, flat-backed rustic pots 
are hung over this trough on hooks and nails in 
the other side is largely marked by cork and 
slate pockets and pots, while a slate shelf just 
below the roof houses a number of тиру 
varieties in pans, 
Next the воз considerations of 
for several varieties of Trichomanes radicans 
and a da while Todea pellucida, Т. 
superba, and Т. з. grandipinnula supports the 
foreign element in conjunction with Т, reniforme, 
A series of shelves up to the window level occupies 
the rest of the space at this end, and here are a 
society, at the head of which I must be per- 
mitted ace an enormous plant of Athyrium 
f.-f. plumosum Drueryii, the queen of a section 
of which I am glad to learn your correspondent 
possesses an representative, Well ma 
"aram lady 9 these rp d^ Ferns with Male 
agement е latter, but I 
fear s must thank the — instinct of 
old botanists rather than Dame Nature for the 
imputation of the sex, though really the exist- 
ing varieties show that for diversity of fashion 
and delicacy of taste no imputation could be 
more appropriate, In one of the writer's latest 
finds, indeed, A. f.-f. revolvens, we have actually 
the“ lady in ringlets. 
Although mere size cannot be deemed a 
special element of beauty, yet since it is usually 
associated in Ferns with greater development of 
the characteristic features, the following actual 
dimensions of some fronds in my fernery may 
be of interest:—Lastrea f. m. cristata, З feet 
11 inches, plus a 12-inch trunk; Athyrium f.-f. 
Viotoris, 3 feet 6 inches; Polystichum aculeatum 
6 
plumosum Drueryii, 3 feet 6 inches long by 
l foot 8 inches wide, the pinne measuring 
10 inches long by fully 5 inches wide, Chas. T. 
Druery, F.L.S., Е.Е Н.8, 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PLANTS, 
NEPHRODIUM (EUNEPHRODIUM) 
DEJECT sp.* 
e and habit 
A FINE robust s species, of the s of 
ticularly by the distant sharply: — pinnæ of 
the lower half of the fronds, stramineous v 
parts, and striation of both surfaces caused by the 
close raised veins, the lowest pair of which on one 
or both sides of the midrib unite together at the ends, 
forming an elongated loop, as in Pleocnemia. From 
t united lobes at the top of the fronds the 
pinnæ gradually deflex м widen apart downward 
to the base where the d ce reaches 4 to 5 inches, 
G. S. Jenman, Demerara, Cotes 18, 1895. 
ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS, 
CAITLEYA BOWRINGIANA, 
E have now in flower and bud four plants of 
the ый, the largest growing in ап 8-inch pot has 
three spikes, with се ten, and ei 
them; the other three are growing in 6-inch pots, 
the one hat two dida with sixteen and eight flowers ; 
the other two spikes — am an flowers, and 
the other one spike w teen flo 1 
be glad if you or any r your a к ые will 
kindly say what is the greatest nu of flowers on 
a spike they know of on this Бс. 21 of Cattleya. 
W. Dawes, Little Vess 8 Shrewsbury. 
Tue Species or DiacgivM, 
Diacrium (Epidendrum) bicornutum, Hook., and 
Diacriam (Epidendram) indivisum, Bradf, MSS., 
are still common in Trinidad, although the yearly 
export by collectors has diminished the supply toa 
considerable extent, D. bicornutum is found almost 
exclusively on the seashore, where it grows on rocks 
and the branches of trees well exposed to the breeze, 
ium) de?ect 
um, Jenn., n. sp.—fBtipites 
15 inches vili. the acuminate apex р nna; i 2 the 
i geri midribs min 
ей; pinnz subproximate, 
and spreading in the upper half, 4 distant, "defexed, Aene shortly 
long, 1$ € wide, tapering to a finally acumi eem 
point 14 inch long, cut a third to half. i to the midrib e 
broadly oblique or su aleate i wide, 
with a narrow ween, and subcrenu 
margins; veins conspicuous 
curved, ten to fifteen to a side all 
five te pairs, Хех and kengin toge 
with a streak between, and with the 
— Malali, Demerara 
puberulous, — 
River, frequent in moist situati ioni 
БИ : 
It forms at times magnificent clumps, Which am 
(Novenser 30, 1895, 
seen to advantage when in flower, in well- 
ositi д 
pictu 
they гере 
watering in dry weather, They are fully expoed 
vertically, but are sheltered on all sides by bellow 
and trees 
The 
second species, р. indivisum, is one which is 
confined almost exclusively to the inland districts, 
It differs from the preceding in being of much 
smaller size, and by having an undivided lip which is 
quite white, and not spotted as in D. 
and the pseudo-bulbs and leaves are 
An expanded flower 
1 
plant when well grown 
alto much 
impatient of moisture, and when established will 
been expressed 
of D. indivisum, but to the field botanist 
who is con- 
versant with the plants in their homer, PEE 
ters are 
have as 
plant is (as 
iust in iot of the 
et € seen, It is 
sebach says) n 
legitimate claim to specific distin 
In connection with the Кате” * "Obi it bu 
presence of stinging ants ac 
material they eccumulate pode 
much more important part Mee 
with food material. Bulletin 
Garden, October, 189. 
e elearly marked, and no intermediate 
кү that the 
I am inclined to think from. recent 
ue i 
lip, its r and the colour 
its constant 
n gs 
Mz. GopsErr's ghi (EpsDENDROM Go: 
EFFIANUM). 
This is one of "^ giants amongst the E 
the plant itself being 2 to З feet in ос 
and tre 
olive or cinnamon o 
three-lobed lip being white with р 
disk, The sepals and petals are incu 
out or spoon-shaped, and marked w 
nerves, The sepals outside are pale fa 
having a few scattered b 
generally, so this is a very TO 
rown dots. As 
robust 
rs 
latter 
Botosi 
