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CHOICE STOVE FERNS. 
PTERIS VICTORIiE. 
This very remarkable and beautiful variegated Pteris has been imported from the Eastern 
Archipelago, and is undoubtedly one of the most striking and desirable Ferns of recent introduction. 
The plant is of graceful habit, thi-owing up a tuft of fertile pinnate fronds, each composed of a long 
linear end segment, and three or four distant pairs of sessile piunte, many of them being forked at 
the base. These segments are entire, about one-sixth of an inch broad, and beautifully variegated 
throughout, with close lanceolate white teeth, extending from the midrib nearly to the edge, 
forming a striking contrast to the dark green ground colour ; the sterile fronds have broader and 
shorter segments. Extremely elegant in growth, this pretty New Fern cannot fail to become a 
great favourite. 2s. Gil., 3s. 6d. and 6s. A coloured illustration post free, price Is. 
