The Gardener’s monthly and horticultural advertiser . cultivation they look well for atime, but gradually fade away after a few same may be said of stove ferns. By-the-by,have you any account of the new variegated ferns,Pteris argyrea and Ptcris tri-color, both of whichare beautiful things, but are yet expensive. I thrive best in chopped sphagnum moss,and clean silver sand ; for Saracenias, Knccphalotus,etc., dry peat and sphagnum moss. The plants dobest placed upon a warm flue, or, better, a tank, thepots plunged to their rims in damp moss, so that aregular warmth
The Gardener’s monthly and horticultural advertiser . cultivation they look well for atime, but gradually fade away after a few same may be said of stove ferns. By-the-by,have you any account of the new variegated ferns,Pteris argyrea and Ptcris tri-color, both of whichare beautiful things, but are yet expensive. I thrive best in chopped sphagnum moss,and clean silver sand ; for Saracenias, Knccphalotus,etc., dry peat and sphagnum moss. The plants dobest placed upon a warm flue, or, better, a tank, thepots plunged to their rims in damp moss, so that aregular warmth and moisture to the roots may at alltimes be insured, and the plant kept moderately is an important point in the cultivation of moststove plants. The best way I consider to insure thisis, to have the stages enclosed with brick work, andarranged similar to the enclosed sketch, which willbetter illustrate my meaning. I decidedly object tohot water tanks in any shape whatever, as being veryexpensive, uncertain and irregular in their 1. Hot air chamber. 2. Hot water pipes or flue. 3. Trap-door to regulate the degrees of bottomheat required. 1. Moss, leaves or tan, etc., for plunging pots in,which should at all times be kept moist. The con-fined heated air will be found to afford abundance ofbottom heat, to keep the moss, etc., at about 95 de-grees, which, if kept constantly damp, will affordabundance of bottom and top moisture, without at allinterfering with the heating apparatus. Slate will bo found a good material for the stage; <Hj if large slate arc inconvenient, shorter ones may beused by fixing stay timbers to support, as shown byslanting lines; or an occasional upright one, by takingthe pipes or flue to one side. [Our correspondent should come over here to seehow to cheapen things, and we think he would bebetter impressed with hot water tanks. If our peopleget hold of a good principle, they soon find a way tobring it within the bounds of true econom
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