. Nature studies in Berkshire. Natural history. 194 IRature Stubies in Berlisbirc* hour's walk will enable one to gather a score of different kinds. Nor is there a square mile of New England countryside where almost the same variety may not be found, to give the patient student a love of these charming plants and help him to know their native haunts. For one, I have to thank that wise gardener, Dame Nature, for the fernery she maintains for me, free of expense, as long as I care to use it. I should not dare to trust my own skill in constructing and keeping up a fernery ; for 1 am no gardener,
. Nature studies in Berkshire. Natural history. 194 IRature Stubies in Berlisbirc* hour's walk will enable one to gather a score of different kinds. Nor is there a square mile of New England countryside where almost the same variety may not be found, to give the patient student a love of these charming plants and help him to know their native haunts. For one, I have to thank that wise gardener, Dame Nature, for the fernery she maintains for me, free of expense, as long as I care to use it. I should not dare to trust my own skill in constructing and keeping up a fernery ; for 1 am no gardener, and it is sure death to any grov/ing thing to attempt to cultivate it in my house. But I can always trust the skilled Grower of green things whose care keeps up this vast fernery of all outdoors in such attractive shape for me. And the chief glory of my fernery is that it is everybody's else as 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 Adams, John Coleman, 1849-1922. New York and London, G. P. Putnam's Sons
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