THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
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LASTREA DILATATA. 
IS very handsome sub-evergreen fernery plant, com- 
monly called the broad prickly-toothed buckler fern, 
requires no skill in its cultivation, preferring a shady 
situation and decayed leaves, yet growing well in any 
kind of soil. In woods of many years’ standing, where 
the subsoil is a cold clay, the roots spread themselves in the 
decayed leaves close to the surface, so that the plants can be 
removed by merely pulling at the fronds. It is commonly found in 
the English counties of Sussex, Surrey, Essex, Oxfordshire, Norfolk, 
Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire. 
Monmouthshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Cheshire, Stafford- 
shire, Shropshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, 
Leicestershire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Westmoreland, Durham, 
Cumberland, Northumberland, Cornwall, Devonshire, Somersetshire, 
Hampshire, and Wiltshire. In Wales it is found in Denbighshire, 
Flintshire, Merionethshire, Carnarvonshire, Pembrokeshire, Cardi- 
ganshire, Glamorganshire, Radnorshire, and Brecknockshire. In 
Scotland it is generally distributed through Dumfriesshire, Lanark- 
shire, Roxburghshire, Berwickshire, Edinburghshire, Morayshire, 
Inverness-shire, Banffshire, Kincardineshire, Aberdeenshire, Forfar- 
shire, Perthshire, Stirlingshire, Clackmannanshire, Kinross-shire, 
Dumbartonshire, Fifeshire, Argyleshire, Ross-shire, and Suther- 
landshire. It is also found in the Channel Islands, and it is a native 
also of America and Canada, whilst it is generally distributed 
through Europe, being found in Lapland, Norway, Spain, Portugal, 
the Alps, Italy, France, Germany, and Switzerland. It occurs at 
every elevation, from the sea level to upwards of three thousand six 
hundred feet in height. The fronds vary from twelve inches to six 
feet in length, and from four to eighteen inches in breadth. 
EXHIBITION ROSES. 
(Extracted from Mr. Shirley Hibberd’s “Amateur’s Rose Booh.” *) 
THEN the judges retire from within the ropes, and the eager 
crowd rushes past the wavering policemen, and the 
tables are stormed, and the ladies win all the front 
P^ aces > an ^ those w^ho have not lost their hands are busy 
gfcgrawfflo iifl notebooks, and from every wave of the great crowd 
arise splashes of sound resembling such words as “Wonderful!” 
“ Surprising ! ” “ Delightful ! ” and “ Are they real p ” “ Yes, they 
are indeed roses ! ” — when these things occur you may conclude you 
are at a rose show, and perhaps the first question you will ask your- 
* “ The Amateur’s Rose Rook.” By Shirley Hibberd. Crown 8vo, cloth, ■ 
illustrated with coloured plates, price 6s. Groombridge and Sons, 5, Paternoster 
Row, London. 
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