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A DAY AT KNAr HILL. 
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coriaceous, and the colour a deep glossy green. 
The fronds are pentangular in outline, the 
posterior basal pinnule being more largely 
developed than its fellows, so that the fronds 
are pedately bipinnate, the principal divisions 
or pinnae being linear, tapering to a point. 
The pinnee are divided into short, close-set 
pinnules, which have spiny-pointed teeth. The 
sori are sometimes covered by peltate indusia, 
as in PohjutkliKiii. and sometimes by reniform 
indusia like those of Lasfrea^ and probably 
sometimes by neither, since it belongs to a set 
in which the indusium is not always well defined. 
The new variety differs from the foregoing 
only in the presence of a broad band of very 
pale yellowish-green, which runs down the 
base of the pinnules, and forms a broad, pallid 
stripe, in which the rachis is included. 
We can commend this fern with much con¬ 
fidence to the notice of every lover of orna¬ 
mental plants, and we have no doubt it will 
become largely grown for general decorative 
purposes. —T. Mooke. 
A DAY AT KNAP HILL, 
S HE display of Ehododendrons and Azaleas 
at the Knap Hill Nursery is a glorious 
sight, when the atmospheric conditions 
are favourable. Then the sunshine lights up 
with brilliancy and beauty the rosy and car¬ 
mine tints of many of the modern flowers, and 
the effulgent glow of the Azaleas is almost 
dazzling. In many seasons the Azaleas are 
found to be in advance of the Ehododendrons, 
but the peculiarities of the past winter and 
spring seem to have brought them on together, 
and the result is a mi.xiure of colours which 
hcichtens the charms of both. The hardy 
Azaleas now in cultivation are most attractive 
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