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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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habit. There are about one in five smooth-leaved; several have turned in 
since, hut none so remarkable either for shape and habit. I am still in 
hopes of being able to carry out my object, but in a more indirect way. 
Cliveden. J. Fleming. 
NEW FERNS. 
VE are indebted to Mr. Williams, of the Victoria Nursery, Holloway, 
for the use of the accompanying illustrations of new Ferns, from 
his book entitled “ Select Ferns,” recently published,"'' of which 
the following extracts will give some idea of the style and purport, 
so far as the descriptive portions are concerned :— 
“ Adiantnm excisum multifidum .—This charming plant made its appear¬ 
ance in my own establishment, and, I may safely venture to say, it is one of 
the handsomest and most useful of its genus. The fronds are quadripinnate ; 
the pinnae deeply cut, giving it a very graceful appearance, from 12 to 
* Select Ferns and Lycopods, British and Exotic. With Illustrations. By B. S. 
Williams, F.R.H.S. London: Published by the Author.—An excellent practical and 
handy treatise on garden Ferns, well supplying a want which has been long felt. Nine 
hundred of the best species and varieties of Ferns known in cultivation, three-fourths of 
them Exotics, are popularly described, and the peculiarities of their culture carefully 
explained. The book, which forms an elegant volume of some three hundred pages or more, 
should be in every cultivator’s hands. 
