. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. l96 cassell s popular gaedexixg. mio-ht suceeed in many jilaces in the open air in this coTintry if suitable positions were chosen. All the rest do well treated as green-house ferns. Several make handsome objects in the sub tropical garden during the summer months if sheltered from winds and screened by trees, &c., from bright sunlight. D. antarctica is perhaps the best and most stately o£ all the Dickso- nias for plant- ing out in a bed in the cool con- servatory, and this species re- quires no care as regards shad- ing from sun- light under the c
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. l96 cassell s popular gaedexixg. mio-ht suceeed in many jilaces in the open air in this coTintry if suitable positions were chosen. All the rest do well treated as green-house ferns. Several make handsome objects in the sub tropical garden during the summer months if sheltered from winds and screened by trees, &c., from bright sunlight. D. antarctica is perhaps the best and most stately o£ all the Dickso- nias for plant- ing out in a bed in the cool con- servatory, and this species re- quires no care as regards shad- ing from sun- light under the conditions stated. Fine large stems an l corre sp on d- ingly hand- some crowns of fronds are not produced unless the adventi- tious roots are encouraged, and this can only be done by constant syringings. Some growers, instead of cut- ting away the old fronds, al- low these to fall and envelop the stem, thus keeping it moist and caus- ing the matted roots to grow freely. Pro- vided attention is duly paid to the requirements of these latter—for it must be remembered that it is by means of them that the plant obtains the greater part of its noui'ishment—very little root-room is neces- '& Plants which through neglect or otherwise have fallen into ill-health can fi'equently be rapidly restored to vigour by plastering the stems with per- fectly fresh cow-dung. This forms a coating through which fresh roots soon push, and the objectionable smell of the fresh dung only lasts a day or so. Good fibrous well-drained loam is the best soil iai which to grow all the DlCKSOXI^ ANTAKCTICA The Cyatheas.—Some of the members of this genus of tree-ferns are second to none in grace and elegance, and thoroughly merit the praise which has been bestowed on them by travellers who have seen them in their native habitats. There are about eighty species, spread over the tropical and sub- tropical regions of both hemispheres, Xext to Aho- phila the genus Ci/athea is the most im
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