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CHOICE STOVE FERNS. 
CHOICE STOVE FERNS. 
Mr. William Bull’s general collection of these elegant decora- 
tive plants is of immense extent, and comprises kinds that are 
moderate in price, as well as many that are extremely rare and 
unique. 
Selections for the Stove can be supplied at 12s., 24s., 30s., and 45s. per dozen; 
when taken by the hundred, say in 25 sorts, £5, the selection would include 
many new and expensive kinds. 
ADIANTUM CONCINNUM. 
A remarkably neat-growing variety, and one of the prettiest of the Maiden-hair Ferns. 
Price li. and li. (id. each. 
ADIANTUM FARLEYENSE. 
The most magnificent variety of this handsome family ; the fronds are of the size and form of 
A. trapez j'orme, but pendant, and all the large pinnules deeply fringed or serrated. 
Price 1 1 guineas each. 
ADIANTUM LINDENI. 
Adiantums rank as one of the handsomest sections among Ferns, and this takes a foremost place 
in its class. It has been introduced from the Amazon, and hence requires to be 'cultivated in a 
stove ; it has tripinnate pentangular fronds, and large oblong dimidiate doorsely-falcate pinnules, 
with reniforme sori. 
Price 1 guinea each. 
ADIANTUM VELUTINUM. 
A noble species from Columbia, remarkable for the large sizo of its fronds, which aro suprade 
compound, the ultimate pinnules deorsely-falcate and somewhat acuminate, and the sori oblong 
reniforme along the edge of the pinnule. A striking peculiarity of this plant is, that tho rachis, 
especially on the upper surface, is clothed with a felt of white brown cobwebby hairs, which gives 
it a pale velvety appearance. The same appearance is continued, though in a loss degree, through- 
out the stipes. 
Price 7s. 6 d., 15s., and 1J guineas each. 
ALSOPHILA CONTAMI N ANS. 
A large-growing remarkably handsome Fern from tho Philippine Islands; fine for exhibition 
purposes. 
Price 15s. each. 
ATHYRIUM COSTALE DISSECTUM. 
A fine deciduous Indian Fern, with fronds 2 to 2 J feet high, oblong-lanceolate in outline, bipin- 
nately divided, and furnished with numerous obliquely ovate pinnules, which are stalked, and from 
their obliquity resemble tboso of some of the more dividod stalks of Polgstichum angulare ; these 
pinnules are deeply dividod at the base, almost to the mid-vein, into oblong lobes, which aro prettily 
toothed along the margin, and of which the basal anterior one is the largest, resembling an enlarged 
auricle. 
Price 5 s. each. 
