WORKS BY FRANCIS GEORGE HEATH. 



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THE FERN WORLD 



BY 



FRANCIS GEORGE HEATH, 



Editor of the New Edition of " Gilpin's Forest Scenery." 



Author of 



"Our Woodland Trees,'' "The Fern Paradise," " Sylvan Spring," 



"Autumnal Leaves," "The Fern Portfolio," "Whereto find Ferns," 



" My Garden Wild," "Trees and Ferns," "Tree Gossip,'" 



•' Burnham Beeches,"' " The English Peasantry,"' 



" Peasant Life in the West of England," 



etc., etc. 



New and cheaper Edition (being the eighth), price $s. net, containing 

 12 Coloured Plates and numerous Wood Engravings. 



*#* "THE FERN WORLD" has been sold in every English-speaking 

 country in the world. 



CONTENTS. 



Part L— THE FERN WORLD.— Litroduction— The Germs of Fern 

 Life — Conditions of Growth — Structure — Classification — Distribution — 

 Uses — The Folk-lore of Ferns. 



Part IL— FERN CULTURE.— Introduction— Soil and Aspect— General 

 Treatment — Propagation — A Fern Valley — Subterranean Fern Culture 

 — A Fern Garden — Fern Rockery — A Fern House — Pot Culture of 

 Ferns — Ferns at Home. 



Part IIL — FERN HUNTING.— Introduction — Fern Holidays— Fern 

 Collecting — Frond Gathering. 



Part IV.— SOME RAMBLES THROUGH FERNLAND.— Introduction 

 — Down a Combe to the Sea — The Valleys of the Lyn — The Valley of 

 the Rocks — Clovelly — Sea and Sky and Waving Green — Torbay — The 

 South-east Coast of Devon — The Home of the Sea Fern. 



Part V,-BRITISH FERNS : Their Description, Distribution, and 

 Culture. 



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