Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 6. Ostrich Fern. The Royal Fern is a great favourite, and so wouldbe its foreign relatives if they were better Cinnamon Osmund [Osmunda cinnamomea) fromNorth America, is equally beautiful, and quite dis-tinct in appearance. So also is Claytons Osmund{Osmunda Claytoniana), another hardy North Ame-rican species. Either of these would flourish in theopen air, and prove a great acquisition to any onewith room to grow them. 84 HARDWICKES SCIENCE-GOSSIP. [April 1,1867. The
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 6. Ostrich Fern. The Royal Fern is a great favourite, and so wouldbe its foreign relatives if they were better Cinnamon Osmund [Osmunda cinnamomea) fromNorth America, is equally beautiful, and quite dis-tinct in appearance. So also is Claytons Osmund{Osmunda Claytoniana), another hardy North Ame-rican species. Either of these would flourish in theopen air, and prove a great acquisition to any onewith room to grow them. 84 HARDWICKES SCIENCE-GOSSIP. [April 1,1867. The prince of hardy exotics is the Ostrich Fern(Struthiopteris Germanicd), which is not half so wellknown as it deserves to be. The erect pale-greenfronds, about two feet in height, stand around thecrown like the feathers in a shuttlecock, forming aninverted cone. Every one whoaspires to an out-doorfernery should obtain this species, which is as hardyand easy of cultivation as the Male Fig. 6S. Virginian Fern (Woodwurdia Virginica). There are also two North American ferns, belongingto a genus of which we have no British representa-tive, with fronds about eighteen inches in are the Virginian Eern {IFoodwardia Virginicd)and the Florida Eern {Woodwardia areolata). Theyare both of them hardy enough to stand the winterout of doors. Our own Lady Eern is so beautiful that a know-ledge of it is sufficient to induce any one to pur-chase a Lady Eern on trust, and if it should beMichauxs Lady Eern {Athjrium Michauxii) theywill not by any means be disappointed. This NorthAmerican species does not attain more than half thesize of the British, which perhaps is in itself a re-commendation. Amongst the Spleenworts there is a hardy specieswhich may be called the Narrow-leaved Spleenwort(Aspleniim angustifolium), which may be grown ona rockwork out of doors. The Maiden-hair Fern is often made the subjectof complaint that it is too delicate for the out-doorfernery, except
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