The fern garden : how to make, keep, and enjoy it ; or, Fern culture made easy . a, a rich fern, good enough for ex-hibition. It thrives in the cool fernery^ but is rathertender. Nephrodium molle corymbiferum, a charming tasselledfern, like a cockscomb; rather tender, and thereforepretty sure to be lost if kept damp and cool in winter;yet it is a greenhouse fern, and one of the best. Niphobolus lingua, N. rupestris, pretty entire-frondedferns, requiring a dry soil, with plenty of broken brickand sand. Well adapted also for the fern case. Forseveral years past we have grown a collection of fern
The fern garden : how to make, keep, and enjoy it ; or, Fern culture made easy . a, a rich fern, good enough for ex-hibition. It thrives in the cool fernery^ but is rathertender. Nephrodium molle corymbiferum, a charming tasselledfern, like a cockscomb; rather tender, and thereforepretty sure to be lost if kept damp and cool in winter;yet it is a greenhouse fern, and one of the best. Niphobolus lingua, N. rupestris, pretty entire-frondedferns, requiring a dry soil, with plenty of broken brickand sand. Well adapted also for the fern case. Forseveral years past we have grown a collection of fernsof this class in a sunny part of the geranium house,and the full blaze of the sun has agreed with themperfectly. Any excess of moisture will kill them. Fifty Select GreenJiouse Ferns. Ill Nephrolepis tuberosa is the only one of this splendidfamily I can recommend for the greenhouse,, thoughthey are all classed as greenhouse ferns in trade cata-logues. This, however, is so distinct, that you musthave it if you buy only a dozen. Onychium Japonicum, a delicate fennel-like fern,. NEPHEODIUM MOLIE, var. COETaiBIFEEIJM. fragile, fairy like, yet nearly hardy, and always inhealth, if thoroughly shaded. Platyloma rotundifolia, very distinct and fine whenin fruit. It must have deep shade. 112 The Fern Garden,
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