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by, on the way through, masses of Oak Fern and many 

 specimens of Male and other ferns growing under more 

 or less wild conditions, until we come to a circular path 

 enclosing huge masses of Osmunda regalis, the Royal 

 Fern, normal and crested, with a fringe or border of 

 Cystoptevis fragilis. Around this centre, on each side 

 of a circular path, there are ranged scores of huge pots 

 and pans, in which are grand specimen plants of several 

 species, but mainly of the wonderful " superbum " 

 section of plumose Lady Ferns, particularly A.f.f. plumosurn 

 Druery, the Queen of the tribe, and its regal sisters, the 

 percristatums. The sloping beds surrounding this centre 

 are filled with a great number of varied species, largely 

 of the Lastrea or Buckler Fern family in variety, with 

 beautifully rural effect. 



Returning to the garden proper, we pass a long, sloping 

 bed, the home of a hundred or more of magnificently 

 frilled Hartstongues in rows, all, we are informed, raised 

 from one of Mr. Moly's best finds, by means of bulbils 

 formed on detached frond bases, a good proof that pro- 

 pagation on a liberal scale is not at all prevented by the 

 absolute absence of spores on the frilled section of this 

 species, at any rate on the thoroughbreds. Elsewhere we 

 see other examples of this in the shape of large numbers 

 of other " finds " treated in the same way. How this 

 propagation is effected has already been described in the 

 11 Gazette,' 1 and we have seen as many as thirty young 

 plants attached to a single frond base when treated 

 properly, that is, to the persistent basal end of the frond 

 which is attached to, and forms by accumulation, the 

 caudex, or crown, of Scolopendvium valgave. 



Proceeding on our way we come to an enclosure within 

 which, under a similar canvas shelter to that of the bays, is 

 the major part of the Buckler Fern collection, in which we 

 find practically all the varieties worthy of note of the 



