. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. FEKNS. 267 ilds treatment; -whilst A. Nidus, for instance, does well in pure peat mixed witli chopped sphagnum. The majority of the species take very kindly to a mixture of peat, loam, and leaf-mould, with a slight addition of sharp sand. All require frequent syring- ings during the season of growth, and a moist atmos- phere throughout the year. Good drainage is an essential in every case. Although many seem to stand full exposure to direct sun-light under glass fairly well, they seem to produce finer and more deeply-coloured fronds when grown in parti
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. FEKNS. 267 ilds treatment; -whilst A. Nidus, for instance, does well in pure peat mixed witli chopped sphagnum. The majority of the species take very kindly to a mixture of peat, loam, and leaf-mould, with a slight addition of sharp sand. All require frequent syring- ings during the season of growth, and a moist atmos- phere throughout the year. Good drainage is an essential in every case. Although many seem to stand full exposure to direct sun-light under glass fairly well, they seem to produce finer and more deeply-coloured fronds when grown in partial shade. GREEN-HOX-'SE KINDS. On account of its rapid growth, its elegant ap- pearance, and the ease with which it can be success- sphere, resembles a good deal the A. caudcUmn, men- tioned among the stove species; probably A. eroswm is only a Vfest Indian form of A. fcUcatum. A. JlabelU- folAMm is a delicate little species from temperate Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand; it is par- ticularly adapted for cultivation in emall-aized bas- kets, as under these conditions its slender bright green fronds are seen to greatest advantage; it also makes an excellent subject for fern-oases, as its arching fronds are proliferous at their tips, and root, freely on contact with the ground. A. fiaccidvm, a very variable plant from New Zea- land, Australia, Van Diemen's Land, &o., is excellent for growing in a basket; its pendulous, bi-pinnate, rich deep green leathery fronds often attain a length of. A. Felix-fcemisa, vak. pldmosum. fully grown, even with limited means at command, A. hulbiferum is deservedly one of the most widely known as well as one of the most popular of greens bouse ferns. The handsome pale green fronds, which sometimes attain a length of two feet, are now and then so heavily weighted with their crop of young plants as to cause them to assume a pendulous nosition. As might be expected in the case of a fern having such a wide geographical distributionâit is found
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