The fern garden : how to make, keep, and enjoy it ; or, Fern culture made easy . the Lady fern, andwell deserves the title. Please excuse description oreulogy; see it and believe. It will grow anywhereunder glass, or in the open air, if in a shady moistposition. I have a grand plant growing in the gravelwalk at the foot of the bastion, and more than I cancount in other places. A fine pot fern, growing well infat peat or in common loam, with sand, or in any soilnot chalky, with the help of a little cocoa-nut fibre tomellow it. Be sure to drain the pot effectually andgive plenty of water. Oh, ho
The fern garden : how to make, keep, and enjoy it ; or, Fern culture made easy . the Lady fern, andwell deserves the title. Please excuse description oreulogy; see it and believe. It will grow anywhereunder glass, or in the open air, if in a shady moistposition. I have a grand plant growing in the gravelwalk at the foot of the bastion, and more than I cancount in other places. A fine pot fern, growing well infat peat or in common loam, with sand, or in any soilnot chalky, with the help of a little cocoa-nut fibre tomellow it. Be sure to drain the pot effectually andgive plenty of water. Oh, how it will smile upon youif you treat it kindly ! The following varieties are fine—Coronans, Corym-biferum, diffuso-multifidum, Elworthi, Fieldice, FrizellicBfgrandiceps, Grantice, multifidum. Blechnum.—B. spicans, the hard fern, is a noble British Ferns. 17 and very distinct fern. Try your hand at a large potspecimen—when four or five years old it will be rather strong soil^ with good drainage^ suits it; sayyellow loam three parts, leaf mould two parts, and grit. ATHYEiril FILIX-rEMINA, vav. COETMBIFEEUM. obtained by sifting the sweepings of the gravel walksone part. By the way_, this is a capital plan of obtain-ing clean sharp sand. We rarely buy sand, as we siftall our sweepings and spend the sand money in keepingthe gravel perfect. 78 The Fern Garden. The following varieties are good—imbricatumj lauci-folium, multifurcutum, ramosum, strictum. Ceterach.—C. ojfficinarum, the scaly spleenwort, is ^m
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