The fern garden : how to make, keep, and enjoy it ; or, Fern culture made easy . ATHYEiril FILIX-rEMINA, vav. COETMBIFEEUM. obtained by sifting the sweepings of the gravel walksone part. By the way_, this is a capital plan of obtain-ing clean sharp sand. We rarely buy sand, as we siftall our sweepings and spend the sand money in keepingthe gravel perfect. 78 The Fern Garden. The following varieties are good—imbricatumj lauci-folium, multifurcutum, ramosum, strictum. Ceterach.—C. ojfficinarum, the scaly spleenwort, is ^m. ATHTEIUM riLIX-FCEiinfA GEANDICEPS. a very interesting fern. It grows lux
The fern garden : how to make, keep, and enjoy it ; or, Fern culture made easy . ATHYEiril FILIX-rEMINA, vav. COETMBIFEEUM. obtained by sifting the sweepings of the gravel walksone part. By the way_, this is a capital plan of obtain-ing clean sharp sand. We rarely buy sand, as we siftall our sweepings and spend the sand money in keepingthe gravel perfect. 78 The Fern Garden. The following varieties are good—imbricatumj lauci-folium, multifurcutum, ramosum, strictum. Ceterach.—C. ojfficinarum, the scaly spleenwort, is ^m. ATHTEIUM riLIX-FCEiinfA GEANDICEPS. a very interesting fern. It grows luxuriantly in ourcool fern-house, in a chink of the rough wall near thedoor. A good pot fern. It loves air, stone, old mortar, British Ferns. 79 shade, andperfect drainage ; try it as an aquatic, and say fareweir^ to it before you begin. Cystopteris.—, the brittle bladder fern, iswell adapted to plant in the front of a rockery. Withone exception, the varieties are worthless, but Dickie-ana (fiontispiece) makes amends for all. C. montana,the mountain bladder fern, and C. regia, are do best in the open air or cool greenhouse. Theyneed shade and shelter, but love iTesh air. Prepare a beda foot square by removing the soil a foot deep. Thenpartially fill up with broken bricks and charcoal, andupon this bed place four inches depth of a mixture con-sisting of equal parts peat, silver sand, the finest dust ofcocoa-nut fibre refuse, and soft silky loam. Place theplant in the centre of the bed, close t
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