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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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for this purpose; and the long flower-spikes of Cymbidiuni ciloifolium are fine as 
drooping objects, with the Passijlora , &c. 
For summer, nothing is so useful as the Lilies and Gladioli. Lilium longifloram 
is splendid for the purpose; also the new white Japan Lily, and an occasional 
flower of L. auratum; with Ganna shoots, large hardy Fern fronds, shoots of 
Humect , and any graceful foliage which will last for the day without drooping. 
Loses are always desirable, and are used here at all seasons, but as they 
do not mix well with other flowers and foliage, they are generally used in small 
vases alone, or with a few other choice small flowers, often with a small bunch of 
Violets or Lily of the Valley for the scent. 
As these flowers have generally to be cut on the Saturday morning, and often 
to be sent to a distance—with, perhaps, in the winter, the thermometer at zero, 
and in the summer at tropical heat—it is necessary to learn what flowers will last 
in a fresh condition for the greatest length of time ; and as there is generally in 
the congregation a lady volunteer who takes pride in her floral arrangements, 
which are generally in good taste, the flowers are for the most part set up to the 
best advantage.— James Taplin, South Amboy , New Jersey , U.S.A. 
DAVALLIA PARVULA. 
HIS remarkably interesting miniature basket-fern was found by Mr. Thomas 
Lobb in Borneo, and was by him introduced to the collection of Messrs. 
Yeitch and Sons, by whom it was distributed some three or four years 
CcP since. It is, as the accompanying figure shows, of creeping habit, the 
slender scaly rhizome being furnished with small fronds, which are evergreen, 
from one to two inches high, deltoid in outline, and divided in a bipinnate or 
tripinnate manner, the ultimate divisions being almost filiform. The sori are 
placed at the sinuses of the ultimate forks of the segments. 
