. The book of choice ferns for the garden, conservatory. and stove : describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and selaginellas in cultivation. Illustrated with coloured plates amd numerous wood engravings. Identification; Ferns. CHAPTER VI. FERNS WITH COLOURED OR TINTED FRONDS. OR the formation of this section we are again indebted exclusively to the exotic species ; as, with the exception of the variations in shades of green, no Fern of European origin finds a place in the list. Yet Japan vies with tropical and North America, as well as with the
. The book of choice ferns for the garden, conservatory. and stove : describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and selaginellas in cultivation. Illustrated with coloured plates amd numerous wood engravings. Identification; Ferns. CHAPTER VI. FERNS WITH COLOURED OR TINTED FRONDS. OR the formation of this section we are again indebted exclusively to the exotic species ; as, with the exception of the variations in shades of green, no Fern of European origin finds a place in the list. Yet Japan vies with tropical and North America, as well as with the East and West Indies, in the spontaneous production of such Ferns, some of which are possessed of a foliage which, for either richness of colour or delicacy of tints, is as greatly admired as many of our flowering plants are for their floral display. In the arrangement, of a Fernery the usefulness of these colourings is obvious, and the advantages to be derived from the use of such plants for that purpose are so manifest as to scarcely require any illustration. When formed into groups exclusively by themselves, or when disposed among other Ferns lacking bright colours, the kinds with tinted fronds are truly beautiful, and greatly add to the appearance and general effect of the stove or green- house in which they are grown—for it may be stated here that kinds of Ferns with coloured fronds are adapted equally for warm or for cool cultivation. The brightest hues are, it is true, found among plants requiring the tempera- ture of the warm-house, where a greater amount of heat and a comparatively greater- quantity of moisture appear to favour the production of bright colours in Ferns, as they do in the case of other plants with decorative foliage. The Ferns belonging to this section are also found among the large-growing kinds as well as among those of smaller dimensions, thus giving their cultivator free scope for placing them in all parts of the house in which they are Pl
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