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CHOICE GREENHOUSE FERNS. 
NEW NEPHRODIUMS. 
In introducing these remarkable novelties, it may be as well to quote the account of them given 
in the Gardeners' Chronicle , October 14th, 1865, page 962 : — 
“We have lately had brought under our notice by Mr. W. Bull a very remarkable illustration of 
the Variability op Ferns. A crop of plants had been raised from the spores of Nephrodium molle 
cristatum , a very indifferently crested form of a very common Fern — a form indeed but slightly 
removed from the normal condition of the species, from the very slight degree of development 
manifested in the crests. In this batch of young plants occurred a considerable number — we are 
not informed as to the proportion — of most remarkable deviations from the parent plant. Many of 
them have the stipes and fronds repeatedly branched, and the parts everywhere densely crested, 
yet not assuming the character of N. molle cortjmbiJ'eruni ; this form might be called ramosissimum, 
and is analogous to the magnificent form of Filix-mas, bearing that name. Others, with more of 
the plain character of the normal state of the species, had well-crested apices both to the pinnae and 
frond, and a forking of the stipes, though loss developed than in the former ; such a development 
as might bo callod ramosum. A third set, with very little of the plain portion in some cases, and 
none at all in others, bore a great glomerate crested head of crispy segments, and this form wo 
propose to distinguish by the name of grandiceps, because it is fashionod after the manner of the 
varieties of our native Ferns to which this name has been given.” 
As with the normal type, these new varieties can be cultivated in any greenhouse, so that they 
are most desirable acquisitions. Several of them have received First Class Certificates both from 
the Royal Horticultural and Royal Botanio Societies. 
NEPHRODIUM MOLLE CONFLUENS. 
„ „ CRISPUM 
,, „ CRISTATUM. 
„ „ DENSUM. 
NEPHRODIUM MOLLE GRANDICEPS. 
„ „ MULTIFIDUM. 
„ „ RAMOSISSIMUM. 
„ „ RAMOSUM. 
Price 3 s. 6 d. each , or the collection for 1 guinea. 
PTERIS CRETICA SERRULATA VARIEGATA. 
An interesting variegated hybrid, intermediate between P. serrulata and P. cretica albo-lineata ; 
the fronds are pinnate, and prettily serrated, each pinnae banded down the centre with a white 
stripe, and instead of the spreading habit of the last-named Fern, its growth is more rigid and 
compact. 
Price Is. 6d. each. 
TODEA AFRICANA. 
A largo free-growing species, of easy culture. 
Price 3s. G d. and 5 s. each. 
TODEA PELLUCIDA. 
This pretty New Zealand Filmy Forn can be supplied in nice plants at 2s. G d. ; fine specimens, 
1$, 2, and 4 guineas each. 
TRICHOMANES RADICANS. 
(THE IRISH OR KILLARNEY FERN.) 
This is a British Bpeoies, but it must, as far as culture in concerned, be inoluded among the green- 
house kinds, as it is almost impossible to succeed with it if treated as an ordinary hardy Fern. 
Price s7. 6 d. ; ha7tdsome specimens, lj, 2, and 4 guineas each. 
WOODWARDIA ORIENTALS. 
This was collected in China by Mr. Fortune, and is a free-growing desirablo Fern, giving handsome 
fronds 2 to 3 feet long. 
Price 2s. 6fl!. and 3s. Ctd. each. 
