The Country Gentlezvoman 



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GLASS CASES FOR FERNS. 



WHEN our correspondent, M. A., asked 

 us some time ago to give some idea 

 how glass cases should be furnished, we were 

 so engaged that we had not time personally to 

 attend to her query. Even now we can do 

 little more than give her some idea how these 

 things may be cultivated, and how they may 

 also be contrasted with other associates that 

 have equal claims upon general atterition, 

 Mr Williams, in his work on Ferns, gives 



Here the case is composed of a Dracasna 

 for a centre plant, surrounded by Ferns, 

 which, with their broad extending forms, give 

 grace to the whole arrangement. Interspersed 

 among these Ferns, which may be of any of 

 the selected sorts named by Mr Williams 

 in his article upon that subject ; or better 

 still, if that were possible, by Vive Vale, 

 who writes upon a " Half Century of Ferns 

 for Drawing-room Decoration " (vol. xviii. 



Glass Case for Growing Fenii. 



capital suggestions upon general cultivation, 

 general selection, and cultural details. In 

 the meantime we must refer our fair corre- 

 spondent particularly to that work. 



Now, let us say that a glass case, after 

 the style of our engraving, will meet all that 

 our correspondent desires. These cases, we 

 understand, are to be bought in London in 

 various houses, and the plants can be had 

 from any of our leading nurserymen. 



page 758) — interspersed among these Ferns, 

 we say, place an Alocasia Lowii or A. Veitchii, 

 which stand confinement without permanent 

 injury ; and you will have a lot of forms and 

 features that will render your case very cap- 

 tivating. It will be all the more admired 

 that it has the more variety, and we cannot 

 do better than ask you to take a lesson from 

 the glass case for growing Ferns represented 

 in the above engraving. 



