The fern garden : how to make, keep, and enjoy it ; or, Fern culture made easy . Mr. Pascall, a potter at Chiselhurst. It can be obtainedof the dealers in ferns, and forms a very neat tableornament, as the pot is made of fine red ware and isroughly ornamented. Another form of the same Kind of tnmg consists of aglass dish with rim and bell-glass, the whole very neatlyfinished, and forming, if skilfully fitted, a most elegantminiature fern garden. Fern cases constructed of wood or metal frames, withboxes or troughs for soil, have been made in endless 44 The Fern Garden. variety^ yet for real uti
The fern garden : how to make, keep, and enjoy it ; or, Fern culture made easy . Mr. Pascall, a potter at Chiselhurst. It can be obtainedof the dealers in ferns, and forms a very neat tableornament, as the pot is made of fine red ware and isroughly ornamented. Another form of the same Kind of tnmg consists of aglass dish with rim and bell-glass, the whole very neatlyfinished, and forming, if skilfully fitted, a most elegantminiature fern garden. Fern cases constructed of wood or metal frames, withboxes or troughs for soil, have been made in endless 44 The Fern Garden. variety^ yet for real utility and beauty of appearancethere are none so good as those of the simplest rec-tangular outlines, such as may be readily obtained of anyof the leading dealers in such things. All things con-sidered, the cases known as Miss Maling^s/^ which. may be heated if required by means of gas flame or hotwater renewed periodically, are the best, because of theirextreme simplicity and the uninterrupted view theyallow of the interior. We are supposed to be great infern cases—I say we in the way of the organ blower in The Fernery at the Fireside. 4^ vie story; but Sine qua Non is the master of them here;Lnd they comprise cases of several kinds, some rathergigantic in dimensions, besides vases fitted with lanternsof plate glass, in which not only climbing ferns and fernsof many other kinds, but climbing ivies, lycopodiums,and such odd things as the artillery plant are have had to make as well as furnish plant have between us managed to exhibit a considerablenumber, and step by step we have acqmred some verydefinite ideas about them, which I shall endeavour toset forth categorically. In the case of fern shades which fit into glass dishes,and which, as long as there is water lodged in the riminto which the lower edge o
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