у RTI TRES ЈИЕ г ТҮ. ЭРШИ Др ЛА, ШЕШ 
January 15, 1887.] 
ADIANTUM FARLEYENSE. 
Your eor Trpo “W. G.” (p.756, Dec. 11, 1886), 
appears to be r theimp ression that this beautiful 
Fern was recived oe m Jamaica. This is evidently 
ап error. The y ке Sipe seen in Jamaica came 
originally from England, Aud this island, although s0 
ч in Ferns, canno 
в amongst э productions. In the hor he 
i ERS 1866, p. 730, a history as well as descrip- 
tion of Adiantum Farleyense were fully given by the 
late Mr. Moore, "is e ally there is little further 
to add. In Mar last year I had the. pleasure of 
visiting Farley Hill in Barbados, the residence of 
Sir T. an aham Briggs, Bart., and I then became ac- 
quainted with all that is known there respecting the 
appearance of this plant. It was found as a chance 
THE 
GARDE NAME 
M all only a well ДАН, almost barren variety 
f А. tenerum. Не ild specimens of А. 
F arleyense from Woodland RU ud at Montserrat 
an anlan some 200 miles north - maura 
rum ч found, Thes 
br M Irs. Se in 1879. D. AE d Director, 
Royal Garden dm j 
—— The espondence which has recently 
арр in the Gardeners Chronicle has interested 
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"he origin of the species was as follows : 
ut twenty years ago a gentleman named 
s. since deceased, but then residing at жаа, 
leigh Court, near Tiverton, Devon, received fro 
fri Sod at Farley Hill, a case of plants which, 
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and other noes rare papers for ж and. а con- 
siderable number, if not the whole them, were 
sold, avid 1 belie ve, jussi into e hands of Mr. 
B. S. Williams and Mess rs. E. e 
for d etin, 
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Mr. Veitch's oss, it ыт чаш discovered 
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grown and s large numbers of the original variety 
(Farleyense) from that time (with "i intervals) 
up to this date, but I have neither se eard of 
it having borne spores, neither do I I believe it ever has 
done so; at least, that the true variety has only 
seedling growing on a brick wall, and it was looked 
upon as а hybrid tenerum and 
trapeziforme. ight or not I 
am unable to say. ` Large plants of both these 
species were owing close у, an Sir am 
Graham Briggs mentio 
> form of tenerum. 
Farleyense is a ae between 
the two some 
support from the fact that the песа colouring of 
its youn resemble that of А, 
Species men tioned derives 
textureit is muc ЕР delicate than either of its ED. 
posed parents, and i 1 
It is the opinion of Mr. Baker 
and in spite of what I saw and heard at Barbados I 
am inclined to agree with him—that A. Farleyense is 
in transit, became much damaged; a portion 
of its contents was preserved, remainder 
was throv underneath a shelf in the stove, and 
ultimately em the } i 
Subseqr sre бы 
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ant o Boos by 
um, 
Mr. Dan 
and 
first saw it 
anxiety I ome taha to become its own 
ever, it was “ поё for sale.” Soon after I 
obtain a plant from eatis but failed ; howeve 
I was presented by t r with a frond bearing 
a quantity of spores, m which my then gardener, 
Mr. Coles, succeeded in raising a large number of 
I a frond, also bearing 
spores, from the original plant, was given жрт Veitch, 
whom a quantity of plants was also. raised, and 
these were Latine sed in the Gardeners’ ChPonicle 
t from ‘ae J. В, 
been grown by division, and 1 
Saunders, East Cliff, Teig ыы Devon 
CULTURAL MEMORANDA, 
CYCLAMENS. 
Turse useful, showy, and free-flowering plan 
play an important part in the embellishment of që 
conservatory, house, е, during the winter and early 
spring months. The varieties of persicum vary in 
colour from pearly-white t ach and rosy-crimson, 
the flowers showing most inl above the dark 
green and prettily blotched leaves. The gene grow 
more sturdily, and. conse quently flower more .pro- 
fusely xa E in a position near the s and 
а 50°. y will be much bene- 
fited by sar бы frequent applications of tepid 
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