head), the last 
extremely difficult to gro 
- the rain however, Eun ‘proper treatmen 
regards w. atering and s mar. in suitable situa- 
there is no а р cultivation. _ 
THE GARDENERS’ 
THE FERNERY. 
THE BRITISH SHIELD FERNS. 
Tue following article on Polystichum was s 
us by the late Mr. C. T. Druery P before his 
death. 
To those who possess conserv small o; 
large which e attached to the точ “бн 
uch а as о -be ner shaded parci d 
eet for ssful 
i go absence ^T bright 
ee dna more highly recom- 
oly- 
mended than our ren Shield Pern s, or Po 
Stichums, and icularl their varietal 
forms. In very many wild ''sports" which 
have been discovered by th ho make a 
hobby of Fern hunting, Nature has supplied 
abundant material, not only in the f of 
varieties which are far away more beau- 
tiful than the common or al types, but she 
also endowed these with Я v ity for such 
rther improvement of type that in these days 
an have h pw 
ot forms ' well worthy à 01 places 
ost 
[s auty. Mn ең 
indigenous to Great Britain 
P. Lonchitis, P. aculeatum, 
hoe 
uccessf M 
tively so little that refer to dismiss it an 
only to deal with 794 c er beg: 
P. angular 
it is undoubtedly ‚ or the Soft Shiel 
Fern, which ient liberal in i 
wild “spo: ese Р. proliferu 
has for many en a popular Fern for 
the decoration of dwelling rooms and conserva- 
tories. Thi s from the normal, twice 
divided specific form in having its sub-division 
much more ham — and acute, giving 
the fronds almost a ect, but it is fur- 
ue '' s impli с sider- 
akle numbers of plantlets along the stalks, and 
in the axils of the pinnae or side divisions. В; 
layering these it is very easy increase the 
$ M it doubtless this fact which has 
u ely to its arit; ide 
distribution by traders. Be hat Шоже, n 
that mly a number of distinct proli- 
ferums have been v. with a like facult 
but that m varieties have a like ten- 
dency, though on a less liberal scale, the little 
tlets bulbils only occu near the 
ica "mid These, if left alone, are apt to 
s Ape lateral offsets, 
Though u збе family g is far more prone 
si wg Or wed plants than many 
hegre ceder 
Polystichum 
ich were 
bn Walla: um 
there are several '' plumos ums’ 
found wild—viz. 
ton’s, which, however, are not dissected 
same extent as the others, but are neverthel 
ery pretty. The crested or tasselled section o 
the species embraces a of very pretty 
forms, in which the form of the tassels varies 
reatly m bunch or corymbiforms {о 
at о, rne ones; wi with these 
ther almost infinite 
e 
am DAS ot Зен ш zie Toms. Ej the Pra eos 
Givisions, pinnules, pinnulets, some 
Ww 
ak 
WN ы WS 
S 
vost 92.— POLYSTICHUM ACULEATUM VAR. PULCHER RIMUM DRUERYI. 
being blunt and ES 
d, some ve 
acute, and all : S ie 
graded between with varied d babita 
varietal capacity, t it is a saying amongst 
adios lovers that everyone who takes 
аа 
"fn 
Ee pua 
irst Class 
that the  mitten-shaped 
said have wedge-shaped bas 
by 
to the stalk 
b: 
re. lr 
tasselled varieties, and 
iivisions vary i 
stiffer habit, an 
The ‘‘grandiceps zy 
bear heavy terminal 
aculeatum 
P vues G 
wing from a 
tunes “© pulcherr 
“gracillimum Druery” and 
тееп?” sections 
the former has no parari 
Vi 
mum, 
as barren for nearly fo forty 
which oe investigation eventa 
> illustrate 
ге Eo нс ые which reise the 
on Octo 
[Аъки, 26, 1919. 
sub-divisions af 
s of great size. P. 
has distinguished itself specially by 
yielding the unique 
beautiful 
of very 
llel, while 
visilo- 
а Поход 
he beautiful 
as 
1907.— —Eds.] wig 
