This plant, commonly called Australian Tree Fern, is deserving of special attention and care by cultivators. Good specimens of these ferns when well grown have a beautiful appearance. Their noble habit of growth makes them fine ornaments for the lawn during the summer months. The soil best adapted to their growth is good rotten sod threeparts, one of peatmould, and alittle silversand. This should be well mixed together, but not sifted; use it as rough as possible. It is necessary that there should be plenty of drainage at the bottom of the pot or tub, as there is nothing worse than stagnant water at the roots. These ferns thrive very well in a temperature of 55° to 6o° at night with a rise of io° or more for the day. The plants should be at all times shaded from the sun. During their most active season of growth they will require plentiful watering. Neglect of this will ruin them for years. The propagation of these plants is from seed or spores, of which millions are produced. A portion of the frond can be pinched off with the seed attached, and laid by to dry on paper. It will be ready for sowing in a few days.

The soil should be leaf mould and silver sand, run through a fine sieve, and put into a regular seed-pan, and then watering with a fine rose-pot, and the seed sown on the top, without any covering of soil. A sheet of glass should be placed over the pan to catch any water that may fall. To obviate the necessity of watering the seed overhead the pan can be set into another pan that will hold water, and be kept supplied as the process of absorption goes on. It will take from five to six weeks for the seed to germinate over a bottom heat of 65- or 700. When the plants are large enough they can be pricked off into other seed pans, each plant about two inches apart, using the same soil as before advised. As they advance in growth they can be potted into two-inch pots.