CHOICE FERNS. 
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CHOICE STOVE FERNS — continued. 
LYGODIUM SCANDENS. 
Nice little plants of this pretty climbing Fern. 
Price 3s. 6rf. each. 
NEOTTOPTERIS AUSTRALASICA. 
In general habit and character this is similar to the well-known Asplenimn Nidus’avisy or, as com- 
monly called, “ Bird’s Nest Fern,” but a great improvement on that kind, the fronds being double the 
width, added to which it is mo)’e hardy. 
Price 10s. 6c/., 15s., and 2Is. each. 
PHEGOPTERIS SANCTA. 
A very n^at growing Stove Fern of dwarf habit, with bipinnate fronds of narrow outline, a moat 
elegant, easily cultivated little plant. 
Price 3s. each. 
PTERIS FLABELLATA ASCENSIONIS. 
An exceedingly handsome, compact-growing Stove Fern, introduced from the island of Ascension ; 
its fronds, which are a little more than a foot in height, are quadripinnajely divided, and have a dense, 
leafy, well-furnished aspect. 
It has been greatly admired, and whenever exhibited received the highest awards that could be 
made. 
Price 3 guineas each. 
CHOICE aHEEMOHSE EEEHS. 
Selections of good kinds can be supplied from Mr. W. B.'s general collection, at 18s., 30s., 42s., and 
60s. per dozen. 
NEW NEPHRODIUMS. 
In introducing these remarkable novelties, it may be as well to quote the account of them given in 
the Gardener’s Chronicle, October 14th, 1865, page 962 : — 
“ We have lately had brought under our notice by Mr. Bull a very remarkable illustration of 
the Variability op Ferns. A crop of plants had been raised from the spores of Nephrodium molle 
adstatum, 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 carymbiferum ; this form might be called RAMOSISSImum, and is 
analogous to the magnificent form of Felix-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 pinnse and frond, 
and a forking of the stipes, though less developed than in the former ; such a development as might 
be called ramosum. A third set, with veiy 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 we propose to distinguish 
by the name of qrandiceps, because it is fashioned 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 Botanic Societies. 
NEPHRODIUM MOLLE CONFLUENS. 
„ „ CRISPUM. 
„ „ ORISTATUM. 
„ DENSUM. 
NEPHRODIUM MOLLE GRANDIOEPS. 
„ „ MULTIFIDUM. 
„ „ RAMOSISSIMUM. 
„ „ RAMOSUM. 
Price 5s. each, or the collection fin- IJ guineas. 
