. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. FERNERIES. 371 Experience has taught me that ferns like an abundance of light, although it is necessary to screen them from cold winds. For this reason I always contrive that a belt of trees, or of rootwork or rock- work, shall surround my ferneries, and at- the same time that the light of the sky may fall upon them from above without their being directly exposed to the fiery rays of the sun. My Fern Glade is placed on one bank of the Backwater, and is screened from the
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. FERNERIES. 371 Experience has taught me that ferns like an abundance of light, although it is necessary to screen them from cold winds. For this reason I always contrive that a belt of trees, or of rootwork or rock- work, shall surround my ferneries, and at- the same time that the light of the sky may fall upon them from above without their being directly exposed to the fiery rays of the sun. My Fern Glade is placed on one bank of the Backwater, and is screened from the sun by a row of nut-bushes to the south. Here many of the larger varieties of lady-ferns, interspersed with poly- â stichums, broad ferns, mountain ferns, and scolopendriums, are grown. The royal fern flourishes near the river, but it is advisable to keep the crowns well above the water, as their roots like damp soil rather than wet. In the driest spots we grow polypody {Polypodium vulgare), and in the wettest the marsh fern [Lastr(za Thelypteris). The Fern Glen is a more elaborate artistic production, affording many delightful little views, and growing fine ferns. The whole is well sunk into the ground, with little rivulets running through, affording one or two boggy places. It is protected on the north by a bank, with a hedge interspersed with trees, and on the south by trees. A large willow-tree {Salix alba) on the south-west shades the sun's rays but still there is ample sky light overhead, which I find so desirable for the growth of all ferns. In this glen a very large Osmunda regalis, from Ireland, with twelve crowns, shows itself in great beauty. A lady-fern of largest size stands forth in a similar manner. The Oak, beech, and limestone polypodies, with the P. hexagonopterum, from North America, flourish. The Adiantum cuneatum grows, but does not stand the severest winters. The holly fern and the rigid fern likewise grow here, with Athyrium _ . ^.-. A 1 ⢠⢠r Fig
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