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spores from fresh-gathered fronds must not be sown with 

 them. 



The experiments made since 1889 are very numerous, 

 and none of the seedHngs are as yet fully grown, so that 

 what more there may be to say on this interesting subject 

 with regard to them will be deferred. 



Fig. 34. — Khedive. 



EXPERIMENT NO. XVII. 



In 1889 three Ferns were selected and the spores sown 

 together — viz., Khedive, a seedling raised from projectiLm, 

 having prominent projections ; Rosabellc, a seedling raised 

 from Ccelesiimun (a narrow fimbriated form) ; and corale, a 



