. The fern garden: how to make, keep, and enjoy it; or, Fern culture made easy. Ferns. Cultivation of Marsh Ferns. 25 dimensions, and produce abundance of fruitful fronds in damp spongy peat. I never saw this and the Osmunda grow so grandly as in a wet gully I struck upon once when fern hunting in a wood near Oakshot in Surrey. There the Osmund was my equal in stature, and the fruiting fronds of the blechnum just reached my chin. It was a very damp spongy spot, yet the ferns stood a little above the water line. Charming plants to associate with the moisture-loving ferns are the Equiseturns or
. The fern garden: how to make, keep, and enjoy it; or, Fern culture made easy. Ferns. Cultivation of Marsh Ferns. 25 dimensions, and produce abundance of fruitful fronds in damp spongy peat. I never saw this and the Osmunda grow so grandly as in a wet gully I struck upon once when fern hunting in a wood near Oakshot in Surrey. There the Osmund was my equal in stature, and the fruiting fronds of the blechnum just reached my chin. It was a very damp spongy spot, yet the ferns stood a little above the water line. Charming plants to associate with the moisture-loving ferns are the Equiseturns or Horsetails. Get Equisetum sylvaticum if you can, and plant it in wet spongy peat in a sheltered nook, and you will have a bit of vegeta- tion that will make you proud of the land of which it is a native,—that is, if you happen to be a true Britisher, which the plant is,—if not, be glad now and then that you came here, for if this is not in any especial manner the land of ferns, it is at all events the land of people who love ATHTEIITM FELIX PCEMIUA, VAB. 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 Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890. London, Groombridge and sons
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