CLIMBING, TRAILING, AND DROOPING FERNS. 71 



Several Aspleniums, such as A. caudatum and A. longissimum,, are very 

 ornamental when grown in baskets of large dimensions, whereas A. flabelli- 

 folium and A. Sandersoni are only adapted for growing in small baskets. 

 The genus Adiantum also furnishes its small contingent of basket or 

 Drooping Ferns : the most generally used for that purpose are A. lunulatum, 

 A. caudatum, and its variety Edgeworthi or incisum, all of which are of 

 exceedingly graceful habit, and are rendered still further interesting by 

 their proliferous nature — each frond being terminated by a young plant, 

 which develops fronds of a very good size without being in contact with any 

 soil whatever. The same remarks equally apply to the beautiful Gymno gramme 

 schizophylla and its more vigorous variety gloriosa, the only known 

 proliferous members of the genus. Pteris moluccana and Woodwardia 

 radicans are two of the most gigantic-growing Ferns adapted to basket- 

 culture ; the former requires warm-house temperature, while the latter is 

 one of the best known and most appreciated of cool-house Ferns. 



In the following list of Ferns with Drooping Foliage, adapted for growing 

 in hanging baskets, the dagger ("j") indicates that stove treatment is required 

 (those not so marked thrive in the cool-house), and strong-growing plants 

 are marked with an asterisk (*). For stove and greenhouse temperatures, see 

 page 27. 



Adiantum asthiopicum. 

 se. as simile, 

 caudatum .f 



c. Edgeworthi (incisum).f 



concinnum.t 



digitatum (palmatum) . 



lunulatum.f 



1. dolabriforme.f 



Moorei (amabile).f 

 Asplenium caudatum. t* 



flabellifolium. 



flaccidum. 



longissimum. f* 



obtusilobum.f 



Sandersoni. t 

 Davallia bullata. 



(Leucostegia) cliEerophylla. 



Davallia dissecta.f 

 njensis.f 



(Leucostegia) immersa. 

 pentaphylla.t 

 repens (hemiptera).f 

 retusa.t* 



tenuifolia Veitchiana.f* 

 G-ymnogramme schizophylla.f 



s. gloriosa.f* 

 Nepkrolepis acuta (ensifolia).t'* 



Bausei.f 



cordif olia (tuberosa) . 



c. pectinata.f 

 davallioides.t* 



d. furcans.f* 

 Duffii.f 

 exaltata."* 



