. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. FERNS. 267 tliis treatment; Mvhilst A. Kid us, for instance, does well in pm^e peat mixed with chopped sphagnum. The majority of the species take very kindly to a mixtui-e 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 par
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. FERNS. 267 tliis treatment; Mvhilst A. Kid us, for instance, does well in pm^e peat mixed with chopped sphagnum. The majority of the species take very kindly to a mixtui-e 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-HOUSE 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. caudatum, men- tioned among the stove species; probably A. erosum is onlj' a V/est Indian form of A. falcatum. A. Jtahelli- folium is a delicate little species from temperate Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand; it is par- ticularly adapted for cultivation in small-sized bas- kets, as under these conditions its slender bright green fronds are seen to greatest advantage ; it also makes an excellent subject for fern-cases, as its- arching fronds are proliferous at their tips, and root freely on contact with the ground. A. jiaccidum, a very variable plant from New Zea- land, Australia, Van Diemen's Land, &c., is excellent for growing in a basket; its pendulous, bi-pinnate, rich deep green leathery fronds often attain a length of. A. Felix-fcemina, var. pltjmosum. fully grown, even with limited means at command, A. hulhiferum is deservedly one of the most widely known as well as one of the most popular of green- house 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 position. As might be expected in the case of a fern having such a wide geographical distribution—it
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