The fern garden : how to make, keep, and enjoy it ; or, Fern culture made easy . POLTPODir:M HZyCHilAyyil. 122 The Fern Garden,. POLTPODir^r PHYITATODES. Thirty Select Stove Ferns. 123 Pleopeltis membranacea, a scarcely interesting fernat first, but one likely to become a special pet in dies down completely in winter, and comes up againin the spring. The fronds are undivided, and bear aremote resemblance to lettuce leaves. We have hadsome plants five or six years in an unheated case, butit is delicate, and most at home in the stove. Pteris argyrea, P. aspericaulis, two richly variegate
The fern garden : how to make, keep, and enjoy it ; or, Fern culture made easy . POLTPODir:M HZyCHilAyyil. 122 The Fern Garden,. POLTPODir^r PHYITATODES. Thirty Select Stove Ferns. 123 Pleopeltis membranacea, a scarcely interesting fernat first, but one likely to become a special pet in dies down completely in winter, and comes up againin the spring. The fronds are undivided, and bear aremote resemblance to lettuce leaves. We have hadsome plants five or six years in an unheated case, butit is delicate, and most at home in the stove. Pteris argyrea, P. aspericaulis, two richly variegatedferns, which are very subject to attacks of thrips ifkept in a dry air. P. tricolor is a favourite which I donot recommend because troublesome to grow, andscarcely worth growing. Platycerium grande is the finest of the stages hornfernsj and though usually described as a greenhouseplants attains a far finer development in the stove. Fixit on a block of wood, and suspend it, or put a blockin a pot, and place the plant near it, so that it can takehold and cover the block in its own way. Exhibition Stove Ferns.—The followin
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