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that many admire. Common such plants as these may he, but 
they are not too common to be grown in the Royal Horticultural 
Society’s gardens at Chiswick, and few prettier effects are seen 
anywhere than in a small stove there, with the stages margined 
with the Isolepis falling down in a fresh green fringe, just touch¬ 
ing and partially intermixing with a still deeper and very charming 
fringe of the Panicum, the pots of which are arranged on a shelf 
fixed partly under and below the stage, the growths of the plants 
falling to the floor. At Drumlanrig the exceedingly chaste and 
beautifully veined Fittonia argyroneura is planted in the gravel 
base on which the pots of Orchids and other plants stand, pro¬ 
ducing a most agreeable effect, while the plants above enjoy the 
partial shade and steady moisture that are afforded to their roots. 
In the category of free-growing plants comes Pothos aurea. 
Fig. 116.—FOTIIOS AUIIEA. 
It is not new nor expensive. We first saw it on the continent, 
but it is now found in most nurseries where stove plants are 
grown. We have, however, never seen it so brightly and beauti¬ 
fully variegated as during the present year. It is not certain that 
every leaf produced under different circumstances of culture will 
be as effectively marked as those represented, yet we have seen 
many sprays equal and some more distinctly coloured than the 
one under notice. The plant grows freely in ordinary rough 
compost of loam and leaf soil made porous with charcoal, so that 
abundant supplies of water can be given. It also delights in heat, 
a moist atmosphere, and partial shade. It is adapted to the 
various decorative purposes above indicated, and has a fair claim 
for a place amongst easily grown plants. 
We are indebted to Mr. Bull for the figure, and the following 
