. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. FERNERIES. 379 fronds are valuable for decoration in mid-winter. It grows and fructifies with me in great luxuriance. Although the common Bracken (Pteris aquilinci) grows so profusely that it is probably the most common fern in the world, yet it is difficult to transplant. To my mind it is exquisitely beautiful, and it lives in the back part of our ferneries sheltered by trees. It has, how- ever, a creeping rhizome, and will travel rapidly where it likes. It is difficul
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. FERNERIES. 379 fronds are valuable for decoration in mid-winter. It grows and fructifies with me in great luxuriance. Although the common Bracken (Pteris aquilinci) grows so profusely that it is probably the most common fern in the world, yet it is difficult to transplant. To my mind it is exquisitely beautiful, and it lives in the back part of our ferneries sheltered by trees. It has, how- ever, a creeping rhizome, and will travel rapidly where it likes. It is difficult to establish, and equally difficult to eradicate, which is a disadvantage. The stems when cut have a singular appearance, and abound in scalariform vessels (fig. 872). In our outdoor ferneries for large ferns we cannot dispense with the Polystichums, which are evergreen, and should be largely grown. The P. aculeatum and P. angulare are probably only varieties of the same plant. The latter attains great size, and sends up fronds four feet high. There are many varieties of this fern, some of which are extremely beautiful. The variety of P. angulare proliferum has bulbils on the Fig. 872.—Scalariform vessels in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smee, Alfred, 1818-1877. London, Bell and Daldy
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