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cure the 
they would affo 
Cheilanthes 
ypole 
ype 
Adia antopsis 
rd a 
n almost endless v 
Polyp a um 
Phleb odin um 
Goniophlebium 
Campy esis 
Pleopelti 
Ascot 
Polystichum 
Sagenia 
Nephrodium 
Lastrea 
Aer ~ ee 
Acrophor 
Osmunda 
Todea 
most recherché and ae pity while 
ee by mem of seed. 
ribe we may defne four leading 
The e squamose a oF bulb, as exemplified in 
all the Old World species of Lilium This consists, 
its mature folie: of a large n in fla 
om the underside 
downwards a dense 
toi are er P is 
s low 
e bulb Fb the surfac ceo 
bres, 
co 
reatly in procuring the nourishment a A strengthen- 
ing the hold upon the Koth of the developed flower- 
In certain 
ate em comes B agave many | 
Pecies of Trichomanes and Hymenophyllum must be 
ppropriately erare m and all ¢ ca aid t asec on 
x h Ser e Se meihs Tinish rroen me 
blank spaces ae 
rns, 
TRE 
me 
eimen $ 
Onder, 
= are a hie 
Old their 
Means of b bul 
lag ould 
sefu eet ales irable plant t for filling up 
forming, as it were, a groundwork 
LILY BULBS. 
eina — of Na 
grou 
E follo Owing extract is taken from Mr. Baker’s 
one, ips ust published in the Fourna/ of 
se’ more or less, 
round omean —All the plants of the 
sa or under cultivation 
and i by 
b- Paets aoraki ‘adepenite nt of being 
pe S E 
ar 
35.=FERNERY AT MESSRS. VEITCH’S (No, 2). 
Fic. 
bearing stem. This underground root- mt. portion 
| 
In the structure of the | the above- -ground leaves of the floriferous stem, 
or 
produced in the axil of one of the bulb-scales, takes 
not 
a aes thickness, composed of half a 
Sp zp et im cna scales, which sends — three 
r fou er a; fibres from its base. t the 
dak fr next summer we have a bulb as larg 
Hazel n a copious developm ines ra 
radicular Mhh from its underside, and the half- phe 
cales prolonged aboy a rosette 
Gblanceolate leaves. Next y 
ae 
p 
5.8 3 
=I 
5 
p 
d, sending out each year 
a ae fad stem from its centre, pe shredding off o 
» with buds in their axils, more copiously i in some 
circumference 
ove the bulb is often vertic | ds, less copiously in others, he n 
aan pon mee nk i for instance, Lilium Leichtlinii, will | all round. In two of the Californian Lilies (W ashing - 
creep for the length of half a foot, so that, if grown in | — and boldtii) this type g — 4 
a pot and the bulb planted in its c:atre, the stem ll | modi by the a axis of th bu Aeamtal g : 
spring up from the side of the por. All these numerous lo mie recipe pe t the APERE 3 hr á ker 
attened scales the pcssess potentially the | of a regular pee the matu u = ir p 
ower of developing new bulbs in their axils, and will | in shape an sa re or less flattened poen m ra ns 
o this, in some species at any rate, under cultivation, | then, we get a squamose ulb taking the oe ok 
if a bulb be broken up an tices reread: ; so that | pass off in the direction of a ~ rhi ; RAE or 
hat with bulb-reproduction and what with seed- | ae scales are quite similar to tl rite ns = 
reproduction, a skilful operator may in four | for The direction t pa s korara 
years rary r ae -fold his stock of a desirable species | oblique, — new moi being forie n E pe 
r variety. a f Nature there is only one | A se sa ca eran o = a Peien of 3 
w fl aries stem develo season from | polis re bett feda rire 
scales. ulb, whether grown 
d outer An 
—— from bulblets developed" in the axils of 
from seed, or 
Darie (0% sensor: sur le genre gh % 
me 
“To give an a -e this Beatie gh 2 
report what I hav canadense, 
