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nervia. The ground-colour of the leaves of all these varieties is green of different 
shades, and the midrib and veins are red, deep pink, or carmine. But such 
meagre descriptions give no idea of their wonderful beauty, as seen against virgin 
cork, stone, spar, or other prepared suitable matter for making rough walls with 
rustic pockets for plants. 
But the finest of all the Fittonias remains to be noticed, the silver-veined 
and richly reticulated-leaved F. argyroneui'a. This, is a striking contrast to the 
coloured veins of all the other varieties, in the lighter shades of beautiful green 
leaves being almost covered with silver lines. It is also the freest-growing variety 
of them all, and will soon cover a wall-space of almost any size. By a judicious 
admixture of this with other varieties, the whole of a wall of any extent may be 
speedily furnished with Fittonias with the happiest effect. Pockets should be 
provided at intervals of a foot or two to receive a few handfuls of loam and peat 
freely mixed with sand. All of them should have an outlet at bottom for water. 
Place a single plant or patch, or a single cutting or branch, in each pocket; 
water freely, and syringe several times a day till established. Afterwards the 
usual watering and syringing given to ferns and mosses in similar positions suit 
the Fittonias equally well, and in fact, endue them with a strength and beauty 
of leaf, stem, and flowers which is seldom reached by the usual methods of 
culture in pots, pans, or earth-borders, &c.—D. T. Fish, Hardwiche House. 
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9 3nDER this name Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea, have distributed the 
^ neat and pretty form of club-moss, represented in the accompanying figure, 
and which they describe as a useful acquisition for a greenhouse or fernery 
of medium temperature. They say “ it is caudescent, the incipient stem 
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