. The book of choice ferns for the garden, conservatory. and stove : describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and selaginellas in cultivation. Illustrated with coloured plates amd numerous wood engravings. Identification; Ferns. CHAPTER IV, GIGANTIC NON-ARBORESCENT FERNS. ONSIDEIiED simply from a decorative point of view, the section next in importance to that exclusively composed of Tree Ferns is the one including all the large-growing non- arborescent kinds ; and with the exception of Dicksonia (Balantium) Culcita and Woodioardia radicans, both
. The book of choice ferns for the garden, conservatory. and stove : describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and selaginellas in cultivation. Illustrated with coloured plates amd numerous wood engravings. Identification; Ferns. CHAPTER IV, GIGANTIC NON-ARBORESCENT FERNS. ONSIDEIiED simply from a decorative point of view, the section next in importance to that exclusively composed of Tree Ferns is the one including all the large-growing non- arborescent kinds ; and with the exception of Dicksonia (Balantium) Culcita and Woodioardia radicans, both natives of Madeira and the Azores, no other Ferns belonging to this group are of European origin. For the ornamentation of conservatories and winter gardens of large dimensions, the numerous, and in many instances particularly striking, plants which form this group are unequalled for diversity of foliage ; and whatever their habit may be—drooping, as that of Woodwardia radicans, Asplenium caudatum, A. longissimum, and Nephrolepis davallioides furcans; spreading, as that of several kinds of Angiopteris and Marattia, Dicksonia {D ennstoedtid) davallioides Youngii, Acrostichum (Ste?iochlama) scandens and Davallia hirta cristata; erect, as that of Todea Barbara {africana) ; with massive foliage, as Asplenium Nidus and its variety australasicum; or with light and finely-cut fronds, as Dicksonia cicutaria and Polypodium rugulosum —they all come in for their share of usefulness, and some of them are found indispensable where spacious houses have to be filled. What can have a more tropical and really regal appearance in a conservatory than a naturally-arranged group of the large-growing Davallias—D. divaricata (polya?itha), for instance, which one cannot help admiring, especially when furnished with its finely- bronzed fronds, which, bright crimson in their youth, turn with age to a beautiful dark, glossy green ? D. solida, too, has large, pendulous fronds,. Please note that thes
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