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POLYPODIUM (PHEGOPTEEIS) DIAN-®. 
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My own practice is always to keep an eye upon offsets, to remove them as 
soon as ready. Their nature is so colonial and progressive, that this may 
virtually be done at any time, though least of all, of course, in the depth of 
winter. But I have had to remove them even then, and keeping them carefully 
under a small glass, they have rooted and grown on in the spring.—F. D. 
Hoener, Kirkhy Malzeard^ Ripon. 
POLYPODIUM (PHEGOPTEPIS) DIANiE. 
HIS noble fern, which requires to be kept in a warm greenhouse temperature, 
is found wild only in St. Helena, where it has been gathered in dense woods 
on Diana’s Peak. It is an evergreen fern of spreading habit, growing 
from three to five feet in height, with a stout ascending caudex, clothed 
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