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might be called a bed of confusion. But from the following 
diagram, perhaps, my readers may be the better enabled to 
perceive how a circular rose-bed should be planted. 
Bed twelve feet in diameter, to contain 
Seven Standards. li Twelve Half-standards. d Twenty-four Dwarfs. 
Total number of Boses, 43. If the bed is larger, introduce 
more; and if smaller, withhold some : this can be easily done 
without altering the style of the bed in the least. Tate away 
the dwarfs, there is a bed of standards and half-standards. Take 
away the two last mentioned, there is a bed of dwarfs; but 
neither of them would form a good bed alone. 
The first circle of dwarfs that is against the margin of the bed 
should be scarlet, or approaching that, as Geant des B (dailies, 
Arthur de Sansals, Duchess of Norfolk, Etendcird des Amateurs, 
Eveque de Nirnes, General Jacqueminot, General Simpson, 
Gloire de France, Lord Raglan, and many others there are that , 
might be chosen in lieu of those according to people’s fancy. 
The second circle, which would be half-standards, would tell well i 
in rose seifs or rosy pinks, such as Auguste Mie, Colonel de \ 
Rougemont, Dnchesse cV Orleans, General Pelissier, Gloire de 
Vitry, Inermis, La Reine, Madam Campbell, Madame Camba- 
ceres, Souvenir de Leveson Gower, Souvenir de la Reine d' Angle- 
terre, William Griffiths, and W. Jesse. The second circle of 
dwarfs to be of yellows and whites, four of each—• Elise Sauvage, 
Le Pactole, Gloire de Dijon, and Ophire or Adelaide Pavie, 
Devoniensis, Mrs. Rivers, Souvenir de Malmaison, and Madame 
Masson, or Mrs. Bosanquet. The four dwarfs around the centre 
standard should be crimson or scarlet, and the centre one Aimee 
Yibert. The other six standards might be of any colour, except 
that of the centre one. It is no more trouble to plant a bed in this 
manner than it is to make a mixed medley of it. Every one can 
judge for himself which.will have the greatest effect when this 
bed has about six or eight inches of Mangles’ Variegated Gera¬ 
nium as a margin.— A. J. Ashman. 
(To be continued .) 
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NOTES UPON PERNS. 
Trichiocarpa Moorii. J. Sm. ( Deparia Moorii, Hook. 
Cionidium Moorii, T. Moore.) Fronds a foot to eighteen inches 
long, membranaceous, triangular, pedately bi-pinnate, with from 
five to seven lanceolate-acuminate pinnse, serrated. Veins pinnate, 
venules anastomosing. Venules carried a short distance beyond 
the points of the serratures, and bearing the sporangia in little 
cups. Stipes slender, dark shining purple. Rhizome short, 
creeping. 
This plant has usually been supposed to bo closely related to 
Deparia prolifera, which is, however, very different in habit and 
appearance, and in it the veins are simple and free, not anastomos¬ 
ing as in the plant above described. 
This interesting and beautiful Eern was discovered by Mr. 
Moore, the persevering Curator of the Botanic Garden, Sydney, 
some ten years ago, who, in speaking of it at the time, says he 
found it “ On the ground in a dense wood on the south side of 
Copenhagen Kiver, New Caledonia.” The fronds arc very apt to 
turn black in winter if too damp ; it should not, therefore, be 
syringed on cold day's. It obtains its generic name from the 
resemblance the stipitate sori bear to a small kind of fungus, 
called Trichia. It was very properly named in honour of its 
discoverer, one member of a talented family who are as much 
connected with the horticulture of the present day (and par¬ 
ticularly so with Ferns), as the Dons w'erein the last generation. 
Blechnum gbacile. Kaulf. Fronds fasciculate, smooth, 
coriaceous, pinnate, upwards of a foot in length, with from eight 
to ten lanceolate alternate pinnse; terminal one much longer than 
the others. Veins in the sterile fronds simply forking. Sori 
linear, one on each side the midrib, covered by an indusium 
which eventually opens on the inner side. Fronds produced 
from the apex of a short rhizome which throw's out numerous 
runners. Stipes reddish-brown, slender, with afewscales at the base. 
A native of tropical Amei’ica and the West Indies. In spring 
this Fern has a most beautiful appearance, as (he young fronds 
are of a bright crimson colour, passing after they have attained 
their full sizo to pale green, which becomes darker with age. It 
has a most graceful habit and is well adapted for general culti¬ 
vation. It increases freely by means of offsets. It succeeds best 
grown in the stove, though I have seen tolerable plants in a 
warm greenhouse. 
PteeiS geraniieolia. Raddi. (Synonymes— Pell re a gera- 
nifolia, Fee.) Fronds pedate-cordate, deeply divided into five 
lobes, which are again deeply pinnatifid and cut into lanceolate 
segments, coriaceous, glabrous. Veins forked with free veinlets. 
The edges of the frond turn back, and so form an indusium for 
the sori, which grow in lines along the margins. Stipes black, 
shining, produced in a fasciculate manner from the crown, or 
short erect rhizome. 
The dark green shining fronds of this Fern are shaped like the 
leaves of some of the sweet-scented Geraniums, or “ Herb Robert” 
of our hedge-banks. . It is an elegant little thing, never attaining 
more than a foot in height, and is, therefore, suitable for a 
Wardian Case. It has a very wide geographical distribution, 
being found in Brazil and other parts of South America, at the 
Cape of Good Hope, in Madagascar, and Mauritius, in the South 
Sea Islands, and in the East Indies. This plant appears in many 
trade catalogues under the name of Pell tea ; but there is little, if 
any, technical distinction between Pell sea and Pteris, except in the 
habit. It grows freely from spores. It is somewhat subject to 
the attack of thrips (as all coriaceous Ferns are more than others), 
if kept in too warm a temperature. It will succeed very well in 
a warm greenhouse.— Karl. 
ERUITS ADAPTED TO THE VARIOUS 
LOCALITIES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
(Continued from page 229). 
PLUMS. 
SYNOPSIS OF PLUMS. 
I. FKUIT BOUND. 
* Summer shoots smooth. 
1. Skin dark. 
A. Freestones. 
Angelina Burdett 
Corse’s Nota Bene 
Kirke’s 
De Montfort 
Late Orleans 
Purple Gage 
Queen Mother 
Reine Claude Rouge 
Woolston Black Gage 
B. Clingstones. 
Belgian Purple 
Frost Gage 
Lombard 
Nectarine 
Nelson’s Victory 
Peach 
Prince of Wales 
Suisse 
2. Skin pale. 
a. Freestones. 
Abricotee de Braunau 
General Hand 
Green G age 
Guthrie’s Aunt Ann (?) 
July Green Gago 
