THE COTTAGE GABDENEE, 
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October 27. 
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deeply cut at the edges. The fronds frequently, when 
well-grown, reach two feet high, ft seldom can be 
propagated by division, but grows freely from seed. 
A. L/KTUM (Gay). —A bright green, erect-growing, 
pinnated Fern, from the West Indies, of great beauty, 
growing two feet high. The rootstock is erect, and 
sometimes branching, by which it may be increased. 
Lt loves light, open, rich soil, and liberal pot-room. 
A. oeigophyllum (Few-leaved).—A Brazilian Fern, 
with oblong, lance-shaped leaves, pinnated on the frond, 
which attains a foot in length, and, therefore, may be 
considered a dwarf Fern fit to grow in a small collection. 
■ The leaves are thinly placed on the frond; hence its 
specific name. The rootstock creeps, and, therefore, 
| may be increased by division. 
I A. pulchellum (Fair).—A West Indian, pinnated, 
| clwarl kern, with slender, elegant fronds, about nine 
| inches long. The leaves, or pinnae, are lance-shapcd, 
rather curved. The seed-vessels are long and narrow, 
and of a bright brown colour; very beautiful. It is 
one oi the most elegant Ferns of the genus that require 
stove culture ; not easily increased by division. 
A. pcmilum (Dwarf).—This is another West Indian 
little gem, but is exceedingly scarce in collections. It 
seldom grows more than a few inches high, and has 
been but lately introduced from the Parisian gardens, 
the fronds are of triangular shape, a rare form in this 
genus. The stems are hairy, and the shield-case is 
hairy also. As soon as this little gem is sufficiently 
increased it ought to be in every collection. The root- 
stock is creeping, and, therefore, it may readily be in¬ 
creased by division. 
A. planicaule (Smooth-stalked).—An East Indian, 
common Fern, in our stoves; common, because it is so 
easily increased by its creeping rhizomas. It is, how¬ 
ever, worthy of cultivation, on account of its beautiful 
lively green foliage. The stems are dark-coloured ; the 
fronds bipinnate, slender, and somewhat triangularly 
formed, growing a foot-and-a-half high, rather erect, and 
thickly set on the creeping rhizoma. 
A. radicans (Booting).—A Cuban Fern ; grows a 
foot-and-a-half long. This may be distinguished by the 
termination of the frond being devoid of pinnae, and 
forming a tuft that produces roots first, and afterwards 
leaves, forming a plant if it touches the soil, and also 
by the black stems. 
A. rachi rhizon (Booting).—(The Asplenium rliozo- 
phorum of Gardens). This is a beautiful, dark green 
species; is worthy of general cultivation; like the pre- 
j ceding species, it is easily increased by the rooting 
j apex of full-grown fronds. All these rooting Ferns 
should have the end of the tuft bearing frond pegged 
down either in small, separate pots, set conveniently 
near the parent plant, or on the soil of the pot con¬ 
taining the plant. The first is the best method, because 
then the young plant, when established, will not require 
to be taken up and potted, but will have its roots un¬ 
disturbed in its little pot till it needs more pot-room. 
A. serra (Saw-leaved).—A pinnated Brazilian Fern of 
great beauty. I have grown it, in a ten-inch pot, three 
feet high, and as much through, with twenty fronds in 
the pot. The fronds rise first erect, then gracefully 
curve downwards; the leaves are of a beautiful light 
green, shining, and very regularly deep cut at the edges, 
like the teeth of a saw; the stems are thickly covered 
vyith narrow brown scales, and stand upon a thick, scaly, 
creeping rootstock. Easily increased by division. 
A. serratum (Cut-leaved).—The leaves of this noble 
Jamaican Fern tire simple. Two feet long, and four 
inches wide in the broadest part, and cut at the edges. 
They form a circle on an erect rootstock, similar to the 
well-known birds-nest Fern. Slow of increase by 
division, but grows freely from seed. 
A. vmrARUM (Viviparous).—This is an elegant narrow¬ 
leaved, thrice-pinnated Fern, from Mauritius, of a lively 
green, growing not more than a foot high. It produces 
living plants at the end of each frond, by which it may be 
readily increased, in the same way as A. ruchirhizon, 
described above. 
A. umbrosum (Shady).-—This is from Madeira, and is 
the Allantodia umbrosa of B. Brown. It requires a mode¬ 
rate stove, though it will exist in a warm greenhouse. 
It is rather a large F’eru, growing from three to four feet 
high. The fronds are thrice pinnated; the leaves are 
lance-shaped, and rounded at the top. The frond-stem 
has a lew dark scales at the base, and the rootstock is 
short, thick, and creeps close to the soil. 
Bleohnum. —The species belonging to this genus may 
easily be distinguished by the seed-vessels or sori being 
generally arranged in lines on each side of the midrib, 
or the leaf. Our common Blcchnum spicant is now 
separated from the genus, and transferred to Loniaria, 
because the fertile fronds of that genus are contracted, 
which is not the case with the true Blechnums. All the 
genus, as now constituted, are natives of the tropical 
parts of the world ; and, consequently, require a warm, 
moist stove. They are oasily cultivated, not being liable 
to perish through mismanagement, unless neglected 
watering for a long period. 
B. australis (Southern).—A pinnated Fern, from the 
Cape of Good Hope, of considerable beauty, easily in¬ 
creased by division. The fronds aro about a foot long, 
pinnated; the leaves are sessile, that is, have no foot¬ 
stalk; slightly sickle-shaped, running out into a lance- 
shape. The end loaf is entire, and lengthened out like 
a tail. It is a good Fern, worthy of general cultivation, 
and by no means scarce. 
B. Bkaziliensis (Brazilian Blechnum).—I once had a 
large crop of this fine Fern, from seed sown on a rough 
sand-stone, placed under a hand-light amongst moss; 
it seldom produces offsets to increase by division. The 
ironds frequently attain four feet, or more, in length; 
they are pinnate, or winged, and each wing, or leaf, 
is from seven to eight inches long. The caudex, or 
stem, on which the fronds are placed circularly, is, when 
fully grown, two feet high. By this description it will 
be perceived that this is a large, noble Fern, requiring a 
tolerably large stove to show it off to the greatest 
advantage. Give plenty of pot room, moisture, and 
heat, and a young plant will, in three years, attain the 
above magnitude. 
B. glandulosum (Gland-bearing).—A Brazilian Fern. 
Comparatively, this is a dwarf species, the fronds 
reaching only a foot in length. They are pinnate, with 
very narrow pinnae, sharp at the end, and of a pale 
greeu. The fronds are set upon a creeping rhizoma, or 
root stock, by which it may be increased, if divided with 
a portiou of roots to each division. T. Appleby. 
(To be continued.) 
COTTAGE GAEDENS AND THEIB 
PBODUCTIONS. 
Under this head may be classed the most useful pro¬ 
ductions which the gardens of the more opulent can 
furnish ; for it is not too much to say, that the quality of 
many of the articles furnished by the industrious cottager 
is quite equal to that of his more wealthy neighbour, 
as all who have witnessed the exhibition of many of our 
provincial shows can testify. Now, that this arises from 
any want of skill or perseverance on the part of the 
cultivator whose operations extend over a large breadth 
of surface, we are unwilling to affirm ; but it certainly is 
a matter ofwhich the humble cottager may be well proud, 
when he returns home and finds, by the remarks of the 
public, that the Onions, Potatoes, Carrots, &c., which he 
sent to the Horticultural Show of his county town, were 
