. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. PLATYCERIUM PLATYCLINIS 1369 15:111. Gn. 51. p. 259. III. 10:697. Not Jin. 1, p. 77, which is really P. grande. Var. majus, Moore, is stronger-growing, more up- right, and with thick, leathery, dark green fronds. Ac- cording to F. L. Atkins, the fertile tronds are more broadly cut than the type and seldom
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. PLATYCERIUM PLATYCLINIS 1369 15:111. Gn. 51. p. 259. III. 10:697. Not Jin. 1, p. 77, which is really P. grande. Var. majus, Moore, is stronger-growing, more up- right, and with thick, leathery, dark green fronds. Ac- cording to F. L. Atkins, the fertile tronds are more broadly cut than the type and seldom forked more than once. Polynesia. Veitch's Catalogue 1873, p. 13. W. M. No private conservatory should make any pretensions to rank in the first class that does not take pride in at least one well-grown specimen of Platycerium. The Stag-horn Ferns are amongst the most beautiful and distinct of ferns âperhaps the most striking of allâbe- cause of their noble, antlered appearance and their epiphytal habit. They have two kinds of fronds, bar- ren and fertile, the former being rounded disks which clasp the tree trunk, while the fertile fi-onds generally hang down and look like antlers. Occasionally the barren fronds are more or less antlered, as in P. qrande, but never give so perfect a suggestion as do the fertile fronds. The species are all tropical, except P. aU-icorne, which is therefore the easiest to grow and the commonest in cultivation. This species can endure a night temperature of 50° P. or even less. The glory of the genus, however, is P. grande (Fig. 1848). The barren fronds are exceptionally large, rounded and wavy margined at the base, deeply cut above, forming an erect or arching background to the pendent fertile fronds, which fork more times and have much narrower segments than the barren fronds. Unfortunately this is the only species that does not produce suckers at the roots, by which all the others are easily propagated. It alone must be raised from spores,
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