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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, July 13, 1858. 
(half-tom) ; multiforme (many-shaped), a large growing 
v ariety. 
Poly podium Alpestre (Rock). Variety : flexile (bending). 
V Dryopteris (the Oak Fern). Requires a light soil, and 
shade. 
P. Robertianum , or calcareum. A delicate creeping Fern. 
P Ph<egopteris (Sun Fern). 
P. Pirginianum. Very rare ; a North American species. 
Polystichum acrostichioides. Fronds two inches wide and 
eighteen inches long ; curiously contracted towards the upper 
part, which is the part where seeds are produced. 
P. Lonchitis (the Holly Fern). Very beautiful; found 
chiefly on the Yorkshire and Scottish mountains ; easily 
cultivated. 
P. angulare (the Angidar Fern). Varieties : Proliferum , 
bears little plants on its fronds ; proliferum var a> very finely 
divided fronds, extremely beautiful ; proliferum b, stems 
beautifully clothed with white scales ; imbricatum (over¬ 
lapping) ; dissimilar , fronds very spiny : subtripennatum 
(thrice divided). J 
P. Braunii . A dark green, soft-looking variety. 
P. frondosum, P. falcinellum , P. proliferum. These 
three foreign species have proved to be quite hardy. 
Pteris (tqUilina (common Drake). Variety: Americana , 
moderately distinct. 
Stolopendrium vulgare (the common Hart’s Tongue). 
Found wild in various situations. I once saw a steep bank, 
in an open wood in Ireland, completely covered with this 
filie Fern. The species has sported wonderfully. I saw in 
Mr. Glover’s collection, near Manchester, fifteen distinct 
varieties, all growing well. Varieties : Abruptum (short cut), 
crenato-lobatum (crenated), crispum (curled), crispum majus 
(greater curled), crispum minus (lesser curled), new; con- 
tractum (contracting), crassifolium (thick-leaved), cristatum 
(crested), new and rare; cristi-galli (cockscomb), chelcefrons 
a small-growing Crab’s Claw like variety; cornutum (horned), 
complicatum (complicated), very curious and very dwarf; 
depauperatum (impoverished), digitatum (fingered), fim - 
briatum (fringed), fceniculum (fruitful), fissum (cleft), a tall 
variety; glomeratum (globular), like a globe, and very rare; 
laceratum or endivicefolium y like Endive, both plain and 
curled, very fine ; lacerata-marginata (torn margins), mar- 
ginata (margined), sub'marginatum (smooth margins), ramo - 
marginata (branched margins), very curious; macrosorum 
(large sori or seed-vessels), multifldum (many times cut), 
multiforme (various formed), the finest of all the varieties; 
poly chides or angustifolium, fronds very narrow; proliferum 
(bulb bearing), pumitum and pygmceum, very diminutive, the 
first being only one inch and the second half an inch high; 
ramosum (branched), ramosum majus (large-branched), dis¬ 
tinct on that account; siccceforme , wavy fronds, long and 
narrow; simplex (strap shaped), supralineatum (linedabove), 
saggitatum (arrow shaped), very handsome and very rare; 
suprasoriferum, sori bearing above; undulata lobatum (lobe 
waved), a rare and handsome variety. 
Struthiopteris Pennsylvania and S. Germanica. Two 
exotic hardy Ferns, from America ; perfectly hardy. 
Jlymenophylla Tunbridgensis and II. Wilsonii. F ilm y 
Ferns, requiring very fibry, spongy, peat, with plenty of small 
stones, or well-burned cinders, mixed with it. Keep them con¬ 
stantly shaded, and under bell or handglasses. Sprinkle them 
twice a day in warm weather. 
Woodsia hyperborea. Rare. 
W. Ilvensis. Rare. 
W. obtusa (North America). 
W.rufiduta (North America). 
Trichomanes radicans (the Irish Fern). Requires the same 
treatment as the Hymenophyllunis. 
Woodwardia angustifolia{ North America). Perfectly hardy, 
and as handsome as Onoclea sensibilis .—T. Appleby. 
PEGGING DOWN VERBENAS. 
Your correspondent, “H. J. Buchan,’’ gives the price 
ot hair-pms for pegging down Verbenas. I would ad¬ 
vise him to use the galvanised wire instead, as that does 
not rust, and will last for years. I have used the same pins 
for three years: this will be the fourth. The wire-like en¬ 
closed sample can be purchased here (Norwich) at 6d. per 
pound, which will make between 600 and 700. Any boy can 
cut and bend them. 
Living, as I do, in a large town, and not keeping any horse, 
I find great difficulty and expense in getting stable-manure. 
Can you inform me if an artificial manure will answer for 
flower and kitchen gardens ? and which is the best to use ? 
Also, what quantity per rod?—W. O. D. 
[These pins, of this shape ?, made of stiff galvanised wire, 
are the best and cheapest we have seen. They are made more 
easily than of sprays, are more easily thrust into the ground 
than they, or matting loops, are, and are so cheap, that the 
largest establishment need not fear the cost of them. 
For manure, use your own house sewage. Mixed with 
gypsum and charcoal powder it is inodorous. We know a 
garden where none other is used, and the Asparagus, Rhubarb, 
&c., are excellent,] 
THE FRESH-WATER AQUARIUM. 
{Concluded from page 209.) 
DIVIDED AQUARIA. 
These are necessary in cases where both harmless and 
noxious insects or fish are to be placed in the same tank. 
The divisions shown by dotted lines are of thin glass, being 
fixed at top and bottom. 
1 %. 1 . 
Fig. 1 represents the plan of an ordinary aquarium thus 
partitioned off; and Figs. 2 and 3 are fancy tanks, the former 
intended for the reception of fish in the centre, beetles to the 
left, and lizards on the right; the latter providing two 
rig-. 3. 
divisions (back and front) for beetles and lizards on the left; 
and fish in the larger rectangular space. 
AQUARIUM APPARATUS. 
The few instruments required for the fresli-water vivary 
are of a very simple character. 
