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The above is a well got-up book on 
the subject of British Ferns, which re¬ 
minds us to what low depth of neglect 
our Ferns have reached at the present 
time, notwithstanding their great beauty 
and immense variety. Few exotic Ferns 
can show such a number of beautiful 
varieties as the Lady Fern, the Male 
Fern, the Buckler Shield Ferns,' the 
Hart’s-tongue, and, by no means least 
of all, the common Bracken. The 
amount of space which the latter requires 
forbids its introduction into small fern¬ 
eries, but where there is room for its 
natural development few things are more 
effective and handsome than the common 
Bracken. 
Those who have only a small green¬ 
house, it may be unheated and on the 
north aspect, would find that the British 
Ferns are capable of giving an immense 
amount of pleasure for a small amount of 
attention. Fern culture at the present 
day amongst amateurs is almost confined 
to the few Ferns which are grown for 
market and brought, it may be, to the 
doors, and to the penny-a-root system, 
which usually means encouraging the 
destruction of wild Ferns. A large num¬ 
ber of British Ferns are quite small, but 
taking large and small there is a suffi¬ 
cient number of evergreen varieties to 
fill a greenhouse and keep it bright and 
green all the year round. 
Tbe book to which we refer is one of 
tho -Wayside and Woodland ’’ series on 
different subjects, being issued by Messrs. 
Frederick Warne & Co., London, and 
the price is 6s. This book has been writ¬ 
ten by Edward Step, F.L.S., who is well 
known in connection with books of this 
character. There are coloured figures of 
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every British species of Fern besides num¬ 
erous full page photographic illustrations 
of our native Ferns in their own wild 
habitats. The illustrations are wonder¬ 
fully true to nature and well executed, 
while the writer’s name is a guarantee 
that the text is all that it ought to be. 
-- 
On the Editor’s Table. 
Apples from Wilton. 
Mr. J. Scammell, Wilton, Salisbury, 
by wav of supplementing his remarks on 
“ The Apple Orchard” on page 722, sends 
us some samples of Cox’s Orange Pippin, 
Border Carnations. 
Plants in pots in cold frames must now 
be kept as dry overhead as possible, but 
with ample ventilation on all favourable 
occasions. Indeed, during dry, mild days 
the lights could be pulled off altogether 
to advantage and this will dry the foliage 
much better than any other plan that 
could be adopted. The next best plan 
is, if there are several lights to one 
frame, that one can be pulled up and 
another let down sufficiently to cause the 
air to pass through the frame. If the 
lights are kept closed moisture settles 
heavily upon the foliage and encourages 
disease. 
Frost may be expected at any time, 
but the only danger in connection with 
plants out of doors is that they may be 
raised up owing to the freezing and 
thawing. After a thaw they should be 
examined and pushed home again with 
the fingers if necessary. Labels are more 
likely to be thrown out, with the possi¬ 
bility of mixing them, and these should 
be examined from time to time. No 
covering that would shade the foliage of 
Carnations would be of any service and, 
indeed, no covering is necessary. If the 
soil is well drained and not too heavy 
the grower may reasonably expect his 
plants to pull through. Those whose 
soil is heavy would, of course, take the 
precaution to winter his plants in frames 
instead of planting them out if the soil 
is unsuitable or the neighbourhood is a 
smokv one. 
Show Carnations and Picotees. 
Where these are kept in frames the 
same treatment as given border Carna¬ 
tions will suffice. Many enthusiastic 
growers have now a suitably constructed 
Carnation house, and in such a case the 
treatment will be somewhat different to 
that of cold frames. Houses specially 
built for Carnations are more airy than 
frames and the surroundings very often 
also contribute to make the plants get 
dry sooner than they would in frames. 
December 19, 1908. 
Blenheim Orange and Fearn's Pippin 
Apples. They were intended to show 
samples produced as the result of his 
practice as detailed in the-above article. 
All are mid-season dessert Apples in ex- 
'cellent condition, showing that he can 
keep as well as grow them. Cox's 
Orange Pippin is large for its kind and 
far superior to the average market 
sample, and good ones command a high 
price. In our opinion this is the best 
dessert Apple grown. The fruits of 
Blenheim Orange are also of the largest 
size that would be exhibited in a class for 
dessert Apples. Fearn’s Pippin is highly 
coloured, and clean-skinned,-as indeed all 
of them are. His trees must be in good, 
and healthy condition. 
Having them on benches in a well lighted 
house is, however, a distinct advantage 
inasmuch as it brings the plants.directly 
under the eye, and a careful cultivator 
will soon determine which requires water 
and which does not. Any greenhouse 
would be suitable for Carnations of this 
class provided the stages are close to 
the glass and the plants get all the avail¬ 
able light. They should not be mixed 
in any way with broad leaved plants, 
otherwise the foliage will soon suffer and 
the damage be irreparable. The space, 
however much it may be, or however 
little, should be entirely given up to the 
Carnations. Ventilation should be freely 
given on all favourable occasions, as it 
keeps the plants in health with good 
foliage down to the pots. 
Tree Carnations. 
As winter is the season of flowering of 
this particular class the night tempera¬ 
ture must be kept somewhere between 
50 degs. and 55 degs. to enable the 
plants to open their flowers properly. 
The plants themselves are not tender, 
but they flower at a season when the out¬ 
side conditions are unfavourable; that is 
the reason why a heated greenhouse is 
wanted for tree Carnations as well as 
American Carnations. 
Malmaison Carnations. 
The very vigour of the fleshy stems 
and foliage of Malmaisons makes them 
more subject to disease than other classes 
of Carnation and for that reason it be¬ 
hoves the grower to use every precaution 
to keep the plants healthy till the turn 
of the year by keeping- them cool, dry 
and clean. Leaves showing traces of 
spot should be burned at once to prevent 
healthy, leaves from getting attacked by 
the spores which soon get scattered in 
the air. 
American Carnations. 
All things considered, pot culture is 
the best system of growing American 
Carnations in this country, and this is 
