New, Rare and Beautiful Plawts. 
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XV. 
Select HuRbT Fern5 
For Out-door Cultivation. 
THIS, another special collection, includes hardy Ferns, and has been selected with great care for out-door fern- 
eries, rockeries and groups of plants for shady places and dark corners near the house, under trees or in ra. 
vines, where they can be planted and massed together with other hardy plants and shrubs, which thrive best 
in such shady places where nothing else does well. These varieties are, many of them, as beautiful as the expen- 
sive exotic forms. 
ADIANTUM pedatum. The only entirely hardy Maid- 
, en's Hair Fern, and a beautiful variety. 25 cents. 
ALLOSURUS acrosticlioides. A beautiful spreading 
Fern -SO 2.5 
A. crispa. Of upright and bushy habit 50 
ASFIDIUra. In this genus are several beautiful hardy 
species. 
A. Nevadense -?0 35 
A. Noveboracense 25 
A. spinulosum 25 
ASFIaENIUM Adiantum nigrum. A peculiar dwarf 
form. 25 cents. 
A. Germanicum. Dwarf and pretty 25 
A. fontanum 
A. nigrum 
A. trichomanes 
A. ruta-muraria 
A. viride 
ATHYRIUM. A large genus, 
and distinct forms. 
including many lovely 
Filix-foemina $0 25 
BLECHNUM spicant serratum 
B. trinervis coronans. Upright in growth 
with peculiar tufts on the ends of the fronds . 
SO 50 
apicale 1 00 
caudata 1 50 
corymbiferum 75 
Frisselliae "5 
A. glomeratum 50 
A. grandiceps 50 
All the above varieties of Athyrlum FiU.v-fd'iiihia are 
very beautiful, and have peculiar fronds. 
A. Filix-fcemina plumosum SO 50 
A. regale $0 .50 to 1 00 
A. setigerum 50 to 1 00 
A. thyssanotum 50 to 1 00 
A. todeoides 50 to 1 00 
A. Vernonise 50 to 1 00 
A. Victorise r,0 to 1 00 
TIk! above are beautiful tall varieties. 
A. Goringianum pictum. Foliage beautifully veined; 
iui elegant species. .'iO cents to $1. 
BIiECHNUni spicant (ijorecUc) . This and its varieties 
are among tlie very best hardy uprightgrowingspecies. 
B. imbricatum SO 50 
B. ramosum 30 
BOTRYCHIUM Luuaria. The " Moon wort. " Pretty 
dwarf species. 50 cents. 
B. Virginianum. Valuable form, of stronger growth. 
50 cents. 
CETERiACH of&cimir\i.m(GymnoiirammeCeterach). The 
" Spleenwort," with a peculiar scaly appearance; a 
very fine species. 30 cents. 
CYH.TOMIUM faloatum. On the order of Aspidium. 
25 cents. 
C. Fortunei ?0 25 
CYSTOPTERIS fragilis. This and the following are 
'■Bladder Ferns," and beautiful and graceful dwarf 
species. 50 cents. 
C. montana SO 50 
IlASTREA decurrens {(lecurstvo pinnata). A rather 
tall growing form. .50 cents. 
Ii. dilatata. This, and its varieties are noble tall grow- 
ing ferns $1 00 
I,. digitata 1 00 
L. grandiceps 1 00 
L. Filiz-mas. The "Male Fei-n;" an important and 
widely distributed species, including many varieties. 
Ii. Rlix-mas Barnesii $0 50 
t. BoUandise 1 00 
L. digitata Jonesii 1 00 
L. fluctuosa 1 00 
Ji. grandiceps 1 00 
L. revolvens 1 00 
Ii. Goldieanum 25 
L. intermedium. Long fronds 35 
ONOCLEA sensibilis. A line hardy native Fern 50 
OSMUNDA. A handsome and very peculiar genus, 
called often " Flowering Ferns." 
O. cinnamomea. Of beautiful habit SO 50 
O. Claytoniana 50 
O. regalis. The " Hoyal Fei-n " of Great Britain, 
and a magniiicent tall growing form 
O. spectabilis 
FELIiAiA gracilis . Dwarf and pretty. 50 cents 
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