ASP1ENIUM LANCEOLATCM. 
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yet moist situations. It grows well in a warm green- 
liouse, shaded from the sun, and kept moderately moist 
Its stature is then much increased, and the brightness 
of its evergreen verdure is intense. The best soil for 
it is a mixture of peat, limy rubbish, bricks broken as 
small as filberts, and leaf mould, in equal proportions ; 
the pot it grows in being filled one-fourth with broken 
crocks for drainage. It may be propagated by division 
in April, but every piece separated must have a crown. 
It will not bear the close, damp air of a Wardian case. 
