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TUB GARDENING WORLD. 
April ii, 1908. 
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Gdifopial. 
New 
Garden varieties are plentiful enough, 
and Fern collectors now and again dis¬ 
cover new varieties of greater or less im¬ 
portance, either from a botanical or orna¬ 
mental point of view. The finding of a new 
species of Fern, however, is quite a dif¬ 
ferent thing, and sufficiently rare now-a- 
days to cause some notice. Where new 
ones are possible it generally refers to 
some little known or unexplored part of 
the world. One would have thought, 
however, that the whole of America, with 
the exception, perhaps, of the more tro¬ 
pical parts, would have been so 
thoroughly explored by this time that new 
Ferns would be out of the question. 
The first part of Volume XVI. of “The 
Fern Bulletin” describes a variety and 
also a new species of Fern. .It also gives a 
full page illustration of the new species 
which the Editor (Mr. Willard N. Clute) 
describes under the name of Asplenium 
Ferrissi in compliment to the discoverer, 
Mr. James H. Ferriss. The fronds are 
oblong-lanceolate, leathery and pinna- 
tifid. The lobes are longest in the middle 
of the frond, and gradually become 
shorter towards either end. In outline it 
recalls a form of Asplenium not unlike 
A. Ceterach, except that the lobes in the 
middle are much longer than usual, and, 
of course, the surface of the frond is en¬ 
tirely different. Instead of being densely 
covered with scurfy scales as in the com¬ 
mon Ceterach, the surface is merely of a 
dull green and smooth. The Editor com¬ 
pares it to A. ebeneum, though he admits 
it could not be mistaken for that even by 
a novice. The sori, or spore-producing 
bodies, are heavy’ and clothe the pinnae 
pretty closely. The spreading fronds are 
4 in. to y in. long and f in. to ij in. 
wide. This new Fern was collected by 
Mr. Ferriss under shelving rocks of a 
rather dry nature in the Huachuca Moun¬ 
tains, Cochise County, Arizona, where 
they were found in fairly large numbers 
last October. 
STERNBERGS 
Pink. 
(Dianthus Sternbergii.) 
The species of wild Pink or Divine 
Flower are very numerous and of the 
easiest cultivation, as a rule, in gardens 
where they are planted on rockeries, so 
as to lift them above the ground and keep 
them rather dry' at the roots during the 
some species they become highly con 
spicuous and very attractive. In this in 
stance they are of minor importance, but 
nevertheless, sufficiently noticeable to be 
come a feature of this interesting wil< 
Pink. 
This dwarf Pink may be propagatec 
much in the same way as the garden Pink 
namely, by cuttings. The grass is toi 
short for making layers, much more s> 
than in the case of the garden Pink, s< 
that the best and most convenient way o ; 
propagating it would be to insert cutting 
of the young shoots some time in July o 
early in August. As soon as ready the' 
could be potted off singly and transferrei 
to ( a cold frame, where they will get es. 
tablished before winter and make a littl- 
growth. To guard against slugs ani 
Dianthus Sternbergii. Maclaren and Sons. 
winter time. The chief danger to be 
guarded against is planting them in bor¬ 
ders of rich soil where they may make 
too coarse a growth in the summer time, 
but suffer for it during the changeable 
weather and freezing and thawing, which 
we get in winter. The species here noted 
is a native of the Crimea, and forms 
close cushions of glaucous green, very 
slender and grass-like leaves. The flower 
stems rise up to a height of 8 in. and pro¬ 
duce a few flowers in a loose cyme upon 
each. These flowers are deeply fringed, 
white and furnished with some brown spots 
on a yellow ground at the base of the 
blade of the petals. These spots are 
usually considered as having something 
to do with the visits of insects, and in 
other enemies the best way would be to 
keep the young plants in the cold frame, 
until the beginning of April. A few of 
them planted together would make a nice 
patch on the rockery and in the course of 
a year or two the space between them 
would be filled up and the whole look 
like one patch. 
-- 
Saxifraga apiculata. 
One of the earliest to bloom, and one 
of the most easily grown of the Saxifragas 
is S. apiculata, which forms a dense 
mossy, dark-green carpet, covering the 
ground and throwing up a wealth of 
primrose-yellow flowers of relatively large 
size. 'An improvement in the size is S. a. 
Alberti. 
