. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. Fig. 862.—Adiantum Capillus- Veneris. Fig, 863.—Hymenophyllum Tunbridgense, Fig. 863 (L.—Hymenophyllum WUsoni. existing), form a series of caves, through the walls of which moisture continually oozes, and here the maidenhair luxuriates in all its glory. Some of the fronds were eighteen or more inches in length, and the earthen walls were covered with sheets of this lovely fern, standing out at right angles from the wall or hanging down from the roof. I must confess that
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. Fig. 862.—Adiantum Capillus- Veneris. Fig, 863.—Hymenophyllum Tunbridgense, Fig. 863 (L.—Hymenophyllum WUsoni. existing), form a series of caves, through the walls of which moisture continually oozes, and here the maidenhair luxuriates in all its glory. Some of the fronds were eighteen or more inches in length, and the earthen walls were covered with sheets of this lovely fern, standing out at right angles from the wall or hanging down from the roof. I must confess that, when I beheld this great and glorious sight, I was more impressed with it than with the thought that I was present on a spot where dramas of blood were enacted centuries before. I speedily collected a number of plants, to the no small disgust of the cicerone, who could not do the amphitheatre at his usual gallop, and who shrugged his shoulders at my utter want of taste in gathering useless weeds. Some of these plants now grow at my garden in the Fern cave. The adiantum is said to luxuriate in the orange groves in Spain, in which country the fronds are used to make the syrup of. 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 Smee, Alfred, 1818-1877. London, Bell and Daldy
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