The fern garden - how to make, keep, and enjoy it; or, Fern culture made easy (1894) (14777420135)

Identifier: ferngardenhowto00hibb (find matches)
Title: The fern garden : how to make, keep, and enjoy it ; or, Fern culture made easy
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890
Subjects: Ferns
Publisher: London : W.H. and L. Collingridge
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library



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ed. Get a blockof old wood, scoop out a hole, and put in it some finepeat, and in that hole fix the plant firmly. Then hangup the block by means of copper wire, and syringefrequently all the j^ear round. It will in time coverthe block with its tawny shields (we call them ^^potlids^^), and make a grand object. A plant has hungnear the roof of our cool house for ten years, and hasseveral times been frozen. Todea pellucida and T. siiperba are a pair of NewZealand filmy ferns of the most exquisite character. Iam half afraid to recommend them to beginners, yetthey only want deep shade and moisture to succeed toperfection, as they are nearly hardy. Plenty of drain-age, plenty of patience, as little air as possible, and allwill be well. I have some fine plants growing in adisused (because leaky) aquarium; they are in finecondition. They are covered close with a sheet of glassand never have any air at all. Thamnopteris australasica is too good to be omitted. Fifty Select Greenhouse Ferns. 115
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PTEEIS SCABEEIJLA. 116 The Fern Garden. You may call it a sublime hartstongue. It loves warmth,and thrives in the stove. A little practice, however,will suffice for its management in a warm greenhouse.Mr. Gibson had the daring to make a bed of a fewdozens of this fern in a shady spot in Battersea Parkin the summer of 1867, and not one of them sufferedby exposure to the vulgar atmosphere of this degenerateclime. Woodwardia radicans, W. orientalis, grand largegrowing ferns that will bear many hardships, and yetlive. The first is indispensable to a beginner who canfind room for it, and as to growing it, look at it now andthen, and it will be satisfied; the other is of smallergrowth, and scarcely less hardy; it has a purplish tintwhen growing. Both produce young plants in abund-ance on their mature fronds. Exhibition Greenhouse Ferns.—The followingform a rich and varied group of twelve adapted forexhibition: Lomaria gibha, Blechnum brasiliense, As-plenium dimorphum, Asplenium hemionitis