. The book of choice ferns for the garden, conservatory. and stove : describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and selaginellas in cultivation. Illustrated with coloured plates amd numerous wood engravings. Identification; Ferns. 334 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. A. Waltoni—Wal'-ton-i (Walton's), Moore. This is one of the several supposed hybrids of garden origin which apparently owe their existence to the influence of A. cemulum. Its fronds, produced from a close, tufted crown, and borne on black, shining stalks 6in. to 9in. long, are nearly lift, lon
. The book of choice ferns for the garden, conservatory. and stove : describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and selaginellas in cultivation. Illustrated with coloured plates amd numerous wood engravings. Identification; Ferns. 334 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. A. Waltoni—Wal'-ton-i (Walton's), Moore. This is one of the several supposed hybrids of garden origin which apparently owe their existence to the influence of A. cemulum. Its fronds, produced from a close, tufted crown, and borne on black, shining stalks 6in. to 9in. long, are nearly lift, long, broadly ovate (egg-shaped), upright, and quadripinnate (four times divided to the midrib). Their pinnae (leaflets or first divisions) are equally ovate in form and occupy an ascending position * the lower ones are borne on comparatively long, slender stalks, while the upper ones have their pinnules (leafits) next to the rachis (stalk of the leafy. Fig. 49. Acliantum Weiganclii (l nat. size). portion of the frond) elongated and compound (lengthened and joined together). The leafits, all attached to short, v,ery slender footstalks, are more or less cuneiform (wedge-shaped), and the round and abundant sori (spore masses) are disposed in a sinus (depression) of the marginal lobes, four to six to a fertile pinnule.—Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iv., p. 485. A. Weigandii—Wei-gand'-i-i (Weigand's). This very pretty, stove Fern, of particularly neat habit and pleasing colour, originated in American gardens, whence it was brought to Europe. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Schneider, George. London : L. U. Gill
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