The Fern Garden: How to Make, Keep, And Enjoy It; Or, Fern Culture Made Easy
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— G. leptophylla is the only Britisher of this lovely family. This little gem is an annual. To secure it for ever, get a plant in a pot, and keep it in a fern-house or shady moist pit. It will shed its spores, and the parent plant will perish. The next season it will appear plentifully as a weed on bricks, stones, borders, &c, &c. Pot a few to give away, and allow 80 The Fern Garden. the remainder to attain maturity and shed their spores for the next season. Hymenophyllum. — H. Tunbridgense is ...the Tun- bridge filmy fern, a cynosure, a paragon, a paradox. It represents a race, all of which require similar treatment. They are all easily grown if dealt with in a proper manner in the first instance. Suppose we consider how to grow a nice patch of any of them. Get a large earthenware pan (flower-pot ware) and a bell-glass to fit fairly within the rim. A fifteen-inch glass would be best, but one half that size will do to begin with. Spread over the bottom of the pan a layer of broken pots, then lay down a bed of very sandy peat — say peat and silver sand equal parts.
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