Dreer's garden calendar : 1899 . dreersgardencale1899henr Year: 1899 ClBOTIDM SCHIEDEI. Platycerium Stemmaria (Stag-Horn Fern). No collection of plants is complete without Ferns. The selection we offer embraces the best varieties of this beautiful class of plants, whose diversity and gracefulness of foliage make them peculiarly fitted to combine with other fine plants and flowers. The popularity of Ferns has increased wonderfully in the past few years, and they are now indispensable in all choice floral decorations, and are especially valued for ferneries for room and table decoration. Whe
Dreer's garden calendar : 1899 . dreersgardencale1899henr Year: 1899 ClBOTIDM SCHIEDEI. Platycerium Stemmaria (Stag-Horn Fern). No collection of plants is complete without Ferns. The selection we offer embraces the best varieties of this beautiful class of plants, whose diversity and gracefulness of foliage make them peculiarly fitted to combine with other fine plants and flowers. The popularity of Ferns has increased wonderfully in the past few years, and they are now indispensable in all choice floral decorations, and are especially valued for ferneries for room and table decoration. Where there is moisture and shade most of the varieties succeed well when planted out-of-doors; they delight in a light soil mixed with sand and peat or leaf mould; good drainage must be provided, as stagnant water is fatal to success. NEW AND RARE VARIETIES. Asplenium Nidus Avis (Bird's Nest Fern). Wehavenow, for the first time, a fine lot of this rare and interesting Fern. Good strong plants, 50 cts. each. Nephrolepis Cordata Compacta. In our estimation this variety is the finest of all the Sword Ferns ; it is of free, strong-growing compact habit, attain, g when fully grown a height of about 2 feet. The fronds are of a dark green color, very rich, of upright growth, with just sufficient arch in them to make them graceful. For house culture we do not know of any other variety that would give the same satisfaction. We offer three sizes : Strong 3-inch pots, 15 cts. each ; strong 4-inch pots, 25 cts. each. Specimen plants in 6-inch pots, § each. Nephrolepis Exaltata Bostoniensis (' The Boston Sword Fern' ). In the vicinity of Boston no other plant is used so extensively as this graceful Nephrolepis, which differs from the ordinary Sword Fern in having much longer fronds, which frequently attain a length of 4 feet. These arch and droop A beautiful variety, with tufted fronds, 15 cts. over very gracefully, on account of which it is frequently called the Founuam Fern. This droop
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