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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[December, 
nearly circular sorus, with its membranaceous entire indusium, is developed. The 
wedge-shaped pinnules and smaller size distinguish it from A. tinctum^ to which 
it is most nearly related. 
A woodcut of A., ruhellum was, by oversight, given at p. 250, with the 
description of A. decorum^ of which latter very ornamental plant a figure is here 
subjoined.— Thomas Moore, Chelsea. 
A Ihonw 
GESNEEA ELLIPTICA. 
S I was reading Mr. Bennett’s excellent article on the Tuberose (p. 20), it 
occurred to me that this Oesnera would be a fine thing to succeed it, on 
account of its fragrance. It is, I must confess, rather lanky in growth ; 
but then it is a plant of very easy culture, requiring but little heat, 
although a stove plant. My very simple method of growing it is as follows :— 
About the 1st of March, I take the pots containing the tubers from under the 
stage in the greenhouse, where they have lain on their sides since the autumn, 
after they had done flowering. The tubers are shaken out and repotted, three 
into a 24-sized pot, in a soil consisting of about two-thirds peat and one-third 
