A Handy book of Horticulture. An Introduction to the Theory And Practice of Gardening
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Owing to some association of place or person from which it may have been procured, an individual Fern can possess an interest for the planter so special as to amount almost to an affection, and he will return to visit it again and again with ever fresh interest. And yet, though it is good to have our favourite Ferns up and down through the garden, specially when we find that they thrive in it, one cannot help feeling that they are worthy of some special corner of their own ; this should be, not... in the full view of every passer-by, and not in the full VII.] IDEAL PUBLIC GARDENS— ADAPTATIONS 91 glare of the sun, but rather at some unexpected turn where mounds can be thrown up and a sort of natural rock-work arranged, as if some dozen square yards of limestone quarry had been removed thither by a pre-historic earthquake. During a half-hour's stroll in one of our well-planned public gardens a useful lesson may be learned in the con- struction of a fernery. A rough pencil sketch of a few groups or combinations of limestone here and there, jotted down at the moment, may often be judiciously reproduced on a smaller scale, and then, when the interstices have been filled with peat and sand and leaf-mould, Ferns will make themselves at home very soon.
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