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Fernery, fountains, cascades, aquarium, and caves, all 
in one. 
The question may be asked, How is such a house to be 
heated ? In reply to this I say, Place your hot-water pipes 
under the path with an iron grating above them, so as to 
allow the heat to rise up ; or you may have an open space 
of a foot or eighteen inches between the front wall and the 
rockwork for the pipes to be laid in.—C lericus. 
WARDIAN CASE. 
This Fern case was made from a leaky aquarium, glazed 
with sheet glass, in a cast iron framing. It contains thirty- 
eight Ferns and seven Lycopods. 
The window inside, intended to represent one at Tintern 
Abbey, is constructed, in three thicknesses, of sheet cork, 
jointed with melted gutta percha, and surrounded by rock- 
work composed of clinker and Portland cement. 
Abundant ventilation is afforded in this case, the roof 
being made on the principle of the small Fernery, which I 
described in No. 426 of The Cottage Gardener. 
By a judicious arrangement of the rockwork a great 
many Ferns can be accommodated in chinks left for the 
purpose. 
The internal dimensions of the case are—length 2ft. 2in., 
breadth 1 ft., depth 1 ft. 3 in. 
The following is a list of the Ferns introduced:— 
FERNS. 
1 Adiantum assimile 
6 --- capillus Yeneris 
1-formosum 
1 -- hispidulum 
6 Asplenium ruta muraria 
1 septentrionale 
2 - tricliomanes 
1 Bleclinum boreale 
1 Ceterach officinarum 
1 Cheilantlies odora 
2 Cystopteris fragilis 
I Davallia Canariensis 
1 Onychium lucidum 
1 Polypodium Cambricum 
1 Polypodium vulgare 
1 Polystichum lonchitis 
2 Pteris arguta 
3 -serrulata 
5 Scolopendrium vulgare 
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LYCOPODS. 
0 Lycopodium dentatum 
1-formosum 
— E. A. Copland, Belhfeld. 
EXOTIC NURSERY, KING’S ROAD, LONDON. 
( Continued, from page 287.) 
An.ectochii.us House. —Here the grand secrets are 
going on, and the place is private; but, like all the 
nurserymen, they showed me everything, and also ex¬ 
plained things which I could not see then, for which 
all I can say, till I am a rich man, is, that I was very 
much obliged; aud if I am not a very good gardener 
after all these revelations, that is not their fault. Why, 
there are as many Pitcher-plants from seeds in this house 
as would pitch up a hundred houses. I never heard of 
seedling Pitchers before, or that the plants seeded in 
England; or, if they did, whether they were not as bad 
to grow as Orchid seeds. Well, there are hundreds of 
the prettiest little Pitcher-plants you ever saw in 60- 
sized pots, and some in 48’s, with from four to six leaves 
on, and a pitcher at the end of everyone of them. Ampul- 
lacea is the kind of which they have the most seedlings, 
and that kind is now sold at less than one half the 
price it bore two or three years back; then it is such an 
