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during summer, it should be in a carefully- 
prepared bed of light soil in a cool place, and 
where the plants can be protected from the hot 
summer sun. In the midland and northern 
districts, where the climate is cooler and 
moister than it is in the south, the Pansy 
succeeds better in the open ground, but needs 
protection in winter, because the cold is more 
keenly felt. 
It is scarcely necessary to give the names 
of varieties. Any one attempting to grow the 
Show Pansy should get two or three dozen 
plants of vigorous growing varieties, and 
make a choice selection from these when they 
are in flower. Those who grow the Pansy 
simply for the pleasure it affords will find 
eight or a dozen reliable varieties as satis¬ 
factory as two or three dozen ; and it is easy 
to make small additions as required.—It. Dean, 
Ealing. 
HYDROGLOSSUM SCANDENS 
FULCHERI. 
f N the 10th of January last a remarkably 
interesting climbing Fern, not generally 
recognised, was shown at South Ken¬ 
sington before the Floral Committee of 
the Royal Horticultural Society, and received a 
lst-class Certificate, in acknowledgment of 
its very ornamental character. This Fern 
was exhibited by Mr. Kettle, gardener to H. 
Egerton Green, Esq., of King’s Ford, Colches¬ 
ter, and is that represented in the accompany¬ 
ing wood-cut illustrations, for the two larger of 
which we are indebted to the Gardeners' 
Chronicle, where we have published some ob¬ 
servations respecting the plant. 
According to the modern view that the 
marked differences which occur in the venation 
of Ferns should be made use of for breaking 
up the vast array of species which come under 
the more antiquated genera, into groups of 
more manageable extent, Mr. John Smith pro¬ 
posed for this Fern the name of Lygodictyon, 
but Willdenow had previously published that 
of Hydroglossum for a similar but more com¬ 
prehensive group, and this latter name was 
adopted by Presl, in his review of the Lygo- 
