. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. 352 THE CENTURY BOOK OF GARDENING A. f. f. revolvens has its pinna? in ringlets and the end of each frond to match ; A. f. f. stipatum Grantee, congestum, Edwardsi, Findlayanum, and Whitwelli have densely compacted fronds, and consequently form good dwarf plants for front rows ; A. f. f. orbiculare, gemmatum, and acrocladon represent a class of Ferns so heavily tasselled that they resemble masses of Moss arranged more or less frond fashion. Among the Male Ferns, L. p. m. cristata, the King of the tr
. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. 352 THE CENTURY BOOK OF GARDENING A. f. f. revolvens has its pinna? in ringlets and the end of each frond to match ; A. f. f. stipatum Grantee, congestum, Edwardsi, Findlayanum, and Whitwelli have densely compacted fronds, and consequently form good dwarf plants for front rows ; A. f. f. orbiculare, gemmatum, and acrocladon represent a class of Ferns so heavily tasselled that they resemble masses of Moss arranged more or less frond fashion. Among the Male Ferns, L. p. m. cristata, the King of the tribe, is a splendid fellow, finely crested and robust, forming a grand Tree Fern if kept to one crown. L. p. m. poly- dactyla Wills and L. f. mas polydactyla Dadds are good companions, while L. p. m. cristata plumosissima is a delicate silken edition de luxe of the species. L. p. m. ramosissima tries to imitate the Mossy section of Lady Ferns in a very masculine way, and L. p. m. ramulo- sissima does the same thing on a dwarf scale, and is in good company with the little gems. A BRITISH FERNERY. —MR. C. T. DRUERY'S COLLECTION. L. p. m. crispata, crispata cristata, and crispa gracile, all a few inches in height only. A narrow-bodied son of the King aforesaid, L. p. m. cristata angustata, is a good foil, but not so robust. In some way it has allied itself with one of the dwarfs and given us L. p. m. angustata congesta, a curious little beauty. L. p. m. revolvens tries to cultivate ringlets like the Lady Fern, but only succeeds, very prettily, in rolling its fronds into tubes. There are three sub-divisions of the Male Fern tribe, and in each there are varieties on similar lines ; the above are the choicest types. The Broad Buckler Fern (L. dilatata) likes a peaty moist station ; it has given us fine tasselled forms, L. d. cristata Oscroft and grandiceps Barnes, and there are in cultivation two splendid varieties of the same species from the Azores, L. d. folioso cristata and poly
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