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. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1907' The American Florist. .315 may be used with >fine efifect during the summer season. The tenderness of many plants is largely a matter of training, for there are kcntias planted out in Los Angeles, Cal., that have experienced a temperature several degrees below freez- ing without injury, while plants of the tree in southern California, though it is of more untidy habit than the erytheas, from the fact that the washingtonia re- tains its old leaves for a considerable period after they are dead, this old foli- age hanging around the trunk of the tree like a sort of untidy upholstery. These. THE BOSTON FERN Kephrolepis AND ITS VARIETIES. ? Elegiintissiniu. same species that have always been grown in a warm greenhouse would have been totally ruined by the same experi- ence. There are also palmetto palms found growing along the Atlantic coast up to the lower part of North Carolina, where they are frequently frozen during the winter without serious injury, the chief effect being to dwarf their growth. The European palm, Chamaerops hu- milis, is one of the most northerly spe- cies, being found in various portions of the Mediterranean country. It stands outdoor culture in the south of England and Ireland without protection during the winter. The Coquito palm, Jubsea spectabilis, is the most southerly American palm, extending well down into the lower part of Chile and, being found well up on the high ground, is often exposed to freez- ing temperatures. Both of these palms are adapted for summer use outdoors in our eastern and middle states, and for permanent planting in the south and southwest. And although neither of them are rapid growers in the juvenile stages, yet both are highly ornamental. The two are of opposite types, the cham- Berops being of the fan-leaved group while the jubsa has long pinnate leaves that bear some resemblance to those of a strong growing phoenix. Then there a