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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ December, 
cane with coal-tar or any other suitable means, since it is that egg that renews the 
generations that attack the roots. It may not bo so easy to do so in the open air in 
France, but in our vineries we ought to be able to do so more easily (always supposing 
their hypothesis to prove well founded), first by examining anatomically and micro¬ 
scopically the specimens found, and seeing from the number of their ovarian tubes 
whether the broods of young are far advanced in the cycle, and likely soon to be reduced 
to the single egg that renews it; and if so, to take special precautions against it, which 
ought to be the more easy to do, as it is said always to bo laid on the cane, and never on 
the bud or the leaves. 
“ In England, as yet, the only effectual means of contending against the Phylloxera 
has been that of stamping it out, by taking up all the vines from the vinery, removing 
the earth, thoroughly cleaning the interior, and then restocking it with fx'csh vines and 
fresh earth.” 
—A. F. Barron, Clusivich. 
LOMAEIA DISCOLOR BIPINNATIFIDA. 
^jHIS most beautiful evergreen Fern lias been exhibited during the past year 
or two, both by Mr. Bull and Messrs. Veitch and Sons, and hag obtained 
f First-class Certificates both from the Eoyal Botanic and the Eoyal Horti¬ 
cultural Societies. Mr. Bull’s original plant, grown, as we presume, from 
a small offshoot, has so far been more symmetrical in habit, the broader sterile 
fronds spreading from the crown, and what appear to be fertile fronds (being 
constructed like them) forming an elegant central tuft. These apparently fertile 
fronds have, however, in most cases proved to be abortive. The plants imported 
by Messrs. Veitch were in the form of older and stronger caudices, and had a less 
regular mode of growth ; but now that they are fairly established, there can be no 
doubt of the identity of the two plants, which certainly rank amongst the most 
ornamental of hardy greenhouse Ferns. Sometimes the abortive fertile fronds 
come broader than at other times, and are then quite intermediate in aspect 
between the two extreme forms. Quite recently Messrs. Veitch’s plants have 
produced perfect fertile fronds. 
The sterile basal fronds of this fem are fully 2 ft. long, and spread outwards 
in all directions; they are oblong-lanceolate, with a short dark brown stipe, the 
primary segments closely set, and the secondary ones densely developed, so that 
the parts overlap, except near the rachis, when the secondary lobes are not 
developed. The fertile fronds, as well as those which simulate them, stand erect 
in the centre, and from the pectinate margin of the segments the latter have a 
very elegant appearance. The barren condition of many or most of these 
apparently fertile fronds may perhaps be regarded as rendering the plant all the 
more ornamental, since there is from them no deposit of spore-dust, such as occurs 
on many plants having the same general habit. 
This species of Loinaria comes from Australia, whence also the variety 
hvpinnatifida has been imported. Messrs. Veitch’s plants were obtained from 
Melbourne. Dr. Mueller’s specimens were gathered in the neighbourhood of the 
Bunip-Bunip Creek, and also on the Dandenong Mountains. The plant is the 
s^ime as that Qxhibited by Mr, Bull, under the name of A, dohropdensis^ but it 
