The fern garden : how to make, keep, and enjoy it ; or, Fern culture made easy . , in a compost of lumpy peat and brokenbricks or stone. C. pulveracea, the under side silvery,the edges golden : a fine companion to C. farinosa, andneeding the same treatment. Gymnogramma chrtjsophyUa, the finest of all goldferns; it must be grown in the stove. G. Peruvianaargyrophylla, silvery-grey on both surfaces, a splendidstove fern. G. ochracea, slightly golden, easy to grow,but needing to be kept in t?ie stove all winter. G. sul-phurea, a pretty little plant, light green above, sulphur-yellow beneath; must
The fern garden : how to make, keep, and enjoy it ; or, Fern culture made easy . , in a compost of lumpy peat and brokenbricks or stone. C. pulveracea, the under side silvery,the edges golden : a fine companion to C. farinosa, andneeding the same treatment. Gymnogramma chrtjsophyUa, the finest of all goldferns; it must be grown in the stove. G. Peruvianaargyrophylla, silvery-grey on both surfaces, a splendidstove fern. G. ochracea, slightly golden, easy to grow,but needing to be kept in t?ie stove all winter. G. sul-phurea, a pretty little plant, light green above, sulphur-yellow beneath; must have stove treatment. G. Tar-tar ea, the under side of the fronds pure silvery-white,the best of all silver ferns for beginners; it thrives inthe stove, but may be kept in good condition in a green-house. Nothochlcena argentea, a fine silvery companion toCheilanthes farinosa, and requiring similar care. , an exquisitely beautiful miniature golden fern; Tree Ferns. 127 a good companion for N. nivea, which is equallydiminutive and densely powdered with silvery GONIOPTEEIS CEENATA. 128 The Fern Garden. CHAPTER XVI. TREE FERNS.
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