The fern garden : how to make, keep, and enjoy it ; or, Fern culture made easy . e way, or even renderitself objectionable. I have some of it in a shady partof my fernery, and very much enjoy the mixture of itselegant light green spray with such ferns as Onocleasensibilis, and others that have bold-looking who know this plant, as probably most of ourreaders do, will be, perhaps, prejudiced in favour of thegenus to which it belongs. But whether such be thecase or not, I wish to recommend these plants to thenotice of fern-growers, as suited to contribute in aspecial manner to the in
The fern garden : how to make, keep, and enjoy it ; or, Fern culture made easy . e way, or even renderitself objectionable. I have some of it in a shady partof my fernery, and very much enjoy the mixture of itselegant light green spray with such ferns as Onocleasensibilis, and others that have bold-looking who know this plant, as probably most of ourreaders do, will be, perhaps, prejudiced in favour of thegenus to which it belongs. But whether such be thecase or not, I wish to recommend these plants to thenotice of fern-growers, as suited to contribute in aspecial manner to the interest of a collection of acro-genous plants. I have all the species that are known,and one of them I consider the most elegant of allplants ever seen upon the face of the earth. This gemis called Equisetum sylvaticum, one stem of which isrepresented in the accompanying figure. If the readercan imagine a nine-inch pot, with about fifty of thesestems crowded together in it, all of them arching overwith exquisite grace, like feathers from the tails of biids 140 The Fern Garden,. EQTTTSETUM STLVATICUM. Fern Allies. 141 of Paradise, the colour the most tender shade of emeraldgreen, no apology will be needed for calling attentionto it in these pages, for it is, in fact, one of the mostdesirable of plants for the fern garden. Equisetum sylvaticum is a British plant, very scarcegenerally, but plentiful enough in some districts. Whenmet with it is usually in a peaty soil, beside a water-coursein a shady wood, or on a bank beside a ditch overhungwith trees and rank herbage ; always in a moist, shadyspot, and if not in peat, in some light soil of similarnature. My best plants in pots are kept under astage, and have all the drip that results from thewatering of plants above them, besides the water giventhem in the usual way, and their appearance is sodelightful, they so fascinate me that I never enter thehouse where they are kept without having a peep atthem. They are to me a feast which
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