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86 ORNAMENTAL GARDENING 
walk had ever been made. If one cannot obtain rock for such a 
purpose sand mixed with a little marl or even swamp earth will 
answer; enough of the latter to bind the whole together but not 
make it muddy. 
Then I dragged in rotten logs from the woods and scattered 
them around so as to look natural. This was a difficult task. 
as they could neither be wheeled nor hauled in on account of the 
thickness of the scrub and the soft bottom. Years before a 
former owner of the land had chopped down the original forest 
and some of the old logs lay there, in many cases partly covered 
with sword ferns and Blechnums. These and the epiphytes on 
the trees gave me my cue. 
I brought in quantities of sword ferns (Nephrolepis exaltata 
and _N. biserrata) from the hammocks and planted them on the 
decaying logs, also in the axils of the saw palmetto leaves, while 
in cavities of the reclining buttonwoods and on slightly elevated 
tussocks of earth N. cordifolia, a species much like exaltata 
but bearing tubers on the root stalks, was also used. It sprawls 
along the stems of trees, throwing out new plants at short inter- 
vals. The lovely native resurrection fern (Polypodium poly- 
podioides) was successfully introduced. This creeps along the 
stems of certain hardwood trees in the hammocks, drying out and 
turning brown in dry weather but becoming fresh and resuming 
growth whenever a quarter of an inch of rain falls. 
There are not less than ten species of epiphytal orchids growing 
in this general region, and these with as many more kinds of wild 
pines (Tillandsias, Guzmannias and Catopsis) were brought in, 
tied fast to trees and, with a little watering occasionally, were 
soon established. 
The beautiful Tongue Fern (Campyloneuron phylliditis) was 
easily made to grow on decaying logs in such situations and on 
large tussocks the magnificent Asplenium serratum was found 
to do well. This fern has long, rather broad, entire fronds of a 
rich, glossy green, and these form a splendid crown that is 
worthy of a king. 
More Acrostichums, Osmundas and Blechnums were brought 
in and planted in the mud, also Crinum americanum and Hymen- 
ocallis and several species of native herbaceous bog plants. 
An exceedingly delicate vine with compound leaves which clings 
