. The wild garden; or, Our groves and gardens made beautiful by the naturalisation of hardy exotic plants ... Gardening; Flowers; Wild flowers. HARDY EXOTIC FLOWERING PLANTS. 141 they would produce a very fine efi'ect. With the Ferulas might be grouped another handsome umbelliferous plant (Molopospermum cicu- tarium) ; and no doubt, when we know the ornamental qualities of the â order better, we shall find sundry other charming plants of similar character. Ferns.âNo plants may be naturalised more successfully and with a more charming effect than ferns. The royal ferns, of which the bold-foHage
. The wild garden; or, Our groves and gardens made beautiful by the naturalisation of hardy exotic plants ... Gardening; Flowers; Wild flowers. HARDY EXOTIC FLOWERING PLANTS. 141 they would produce a very fine efi'ect. With the Ferulas might be grouped another handsome umbelliferous plant (Molopospermum cicu- tarium) ; and no doubt, when we know the ornamental qualities of the â order better, we shall find sundry other charming plants of similar character. Ferns.âNo plants may be naturalised more successfully and with a more charming effect than ferns. The royal ferns, of which the bold-foHage is reflected in the marsh waters of Northern America, will do well in the many places where our own royal fern thrives. The graceful maidenhair fern of the rich woods of the Eastern States and the Canadas will thrive perfectly in any cool, shady, narrow lane, or dyke, or in a shady wood. The small ferns that find a home on arid alpine cliffs may be established on old walls and ruins. Cheilanthes odora, which grows so freely on the sunny sides of walls in Southern France, would be well worth trying in similar positions in the south of England, the spores to be sown in mossy chinks of the walls. The climbing fern Lygodium palmatum, which goes as far north as cold Massachusetts, would twine its graceful stems up the undershrubs in an English wood too. In fact, there is no fern of the numbers that inhabit the northern regions of Europe, Asia, and America, that may not be tried with confidence in various positions, preferring for the greater number such positions as we know our native kinds to thrive best in. One could form a rich and stately type of wood-haunting fern vegetation without employing one of our native kinds at all, though, of course, generally the best way wiU be to associate all so far as their habits and sizes will permit. Treat them boldly ; put strong kinds out in glades ; imagine colonies of Daffodils among the Oak and Beech Ferns, fringed by early Aconite, in
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