Window gardening : devoted specially to the culture of flowers and ornamental plants for indoor use and parlor decoration . ple list like this is suf-fficient. For tall ferns choose Polypodium Aiireum, , Pteris argyrea, AspleniumBrasiliense, Adiantum Macrophyllum, Anemiahylitidis. In planting your ferns do not crowd themtogether, but give room for the full developmentof the fronds; their growth is rapid and manysoon double their original size when first pur-chased. Alternate the different varieties if pos-sible, and do not get two or three plants of the same kind together. A fi
Window gardening : devoted specially to the culture of flowers and ornamental plants for indoor use and parlor decoration . ple list like this is suf-fficient. For tall ferns choose Polypodium Aiireum, , Pteris argyrea, AspleniumBrasiliense, Adiantum Macrophyllum, Anemiahylitidis. In planting your ferns do not crowd themtogether, but give room for the full developmentof the fronds; their growth is rapid and manysoon double their original size when first pur-chased. Alternate the different varieties if pos-sible, and do not get two or three plants of the same kind together. A fine delicate fern always Fig. 53.—Parlor Fern stand, looks more graceful and pretty beside a variety with a full bioad frond. Soa light green or variegated plant will show to better advantage beside onewith a dark green frond. In choosing your soil, make say of three partsrich, black peaty mould, one part coarse sand and gravel siftings mixed, and onepart broken charcoal, see that the pieces of charcoal are broken to the size ofcranberries, and well mixed with the earth; the whole should only be brokenup, not 174 WIXDOW GARDENING. After jou have put the plants in the case, water with a small watering potwith a fine nose. Satuiate the earth prettj- thoroughl}, but not to make itmuddy. There are many otlier varieties of the Lycjodiums not mentioned , Apodum, deiisum, caesium, arboreum, lipidophyllum, their roots willextend over the earth, covering all the bare spots with a fiesh green carpet ofdelicate growth. Should we be able to procure a plant of the greenhouse species of climbingfern, Lygodium flexuosum, or L. japonicum, another beautiful object will beadded. Among the climbing ferns, are some of the most graceful ferns in the wholefamily of Filices. There is one plant, however, not a fern, which does exceed-ingly well in a fern case, and is remarkably interesting. We refer to Ficus Stip-ulata. This plant, a vine, is a free grower, and climbs up the si
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