CHOICE FERNS. 
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CHOICE HARDY FERNS — continued. 
ATHYRIUM GORINGIANUM PICTUM. 
This handsome variety, which attractejC good deal of attention at the International Horticultural 
Hxhibition, is remarkable as forming another addition to the small number as yet known of variegated 
Ferns. It is probably J apanese, and forms a somewhat triangular frond of drooping character, marked 
with a grey band along each side of the reddish mid-rib of the pinnae. Among Ferns of a hardy or 
half-hardy character, it forms a very decided acquisition. This Fern excited much admiration at 
International Show. 
Price 21s. each, 
LASTREA ERYTHROSORA. 
A very handsome hardy evergreen Japanese Fem, well adapted for greenhouse or open air culti- 
vation, for it is quite hardy, and the bold shining fronds are persistent throughout the winter, growing 
2 to 3 feet high, with dark stipes, the fertile ones decorated by lines of red dots, which are the involucral 
scales overlying the spore cases. 
It has received several Certificates of Merit as a distinct and desirable hardy fern. 
Price 3s. 6<f. each. 
LASTREA FILIX-MAS BARNESII. 
A very handsome and distinct normal habited hardy Fern with narrow fronds, short pinn® and 
broad rounded pinnules ; a most decided and characteristic variety. 
Price Is, 6d. and 10s. Gd. each. 
LASTREA VARIA. 
This bipinnate evergreen hardy Fern has been introduced from Japan. In general appearance it 
somewhat resembles Lastrea apaca, but it has this great difference, that instead of having bright green, 
glossy frand.s, as in the last named, the fronds are dull on their surface, of a veiy dark green, and when 
young they are of a deep red or reddish-brown colour. 
It has received several Certificates of Merit, and can be recommended as a good Fern for the 
Greenhouse or Hardy Feraery. 
Price 5s. each. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE GRANDICEPS. 
One of the choicer crested forms of Polystichimi anijularCy and remarkable for the great coiTmbose 
head of crispy tufts which form the apex of the frond. 
Price 7s. Gd. each. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE PARVISSIMUM. 
A veiy pretty, distinct, neat-growing, hardy Fem ; fronds thick, of a deep green colour, growing 
from 8 to 10 inches long, with an acuminate apex, and numerous pinnae, which are crowded with 
curiously minute pinnules overlapping each other, these latter being so blunt as to have almost a 
quadrate figure, and so small that they do not measure more than a line in either direction. 
Price 15s. and 21s. each. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE PROLIFERUM WOLLASTONI. 
This really noble variety has all the characters of Proliferum, but it has wider and longer fronds. 
One of the handsomest of the British Fenis. • 
Price 3s. Gd and 5s. each. 
SCOLOPENDRIUM BIMARGINATO-CORDATUM. 
An extremely curious and interesting variety, so distinct that it should be in every collection of 
hardy Ferns. 
Price 5s. and 7s, Gd. each. 
SCOLOPENDRIUM MORGAN!. 
A dense and pompact growing crested variety, one of the prettiest of the Crested Scolpendriums. 
Price 5s. and 7s. Gd. each. 
