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of the third year's plants, must be allowed to fix themselves in the 

 ground of the intervening spaces, keeping them apart from the old 

 plants to benefit by full exposure to air and sun. 



Every operation of the garden demands patience and assiduity ; 

 but we know of no method of strawberry-culture which implies less 

 labour than the one we have described. 



Every operation must, however, be foreseen, and timely per- 

 formed ; otherwise, litter and crowding will occur, and produce 

 mischief. 



It only remains to add that the same ground may be replanted 

 during several courses, provided two or three inches of fresh rich 

 loam be thrown about the rows every winter. 



WINDOW GARDENING. 



BT JOHN E. MOLLISON. 

 (Continued from page 243.) 



HARDY FERNS.— CONTINUED. 



|HE article on Window Gardening, in our last number, 

 • contained nearly all the dwarfer-growing hardy ferns 

 suitable for our purpose. So now we will briefly notice 

 the larger-growing species. They are all very hand- 

 some, and being the most common, they are generally 

 the easiest to get. The male fern, lady fern, and mountain buckler 

 lern especially, you will find in great abundance all over the country. 

 In moist woods they attain great luxuriance, adding greatly to the 

 charms of the sylvan shades, with their graceful feathery plumes. 



Lastrea Filix-mas.—The male fern, or common buckler fern is a 

 very robust- tufted growing species. The fronds, which are produced 

 from a crown, rise from one to two feet in height, supported on 

 densely-scaled brownish stipes, and are broadly lanceolate in shape, 

 divided, the divisions in pairs along the rachis or midrib, and very 

 regularly deeply lobed or cut. It is of easy cultivation. 



Gristata is a notable variety of the species, of a curious, hand- 

 some habit, having the points of the divisions and fronds frino-ed 

 and tasselled. & 



Lastrea oreopteris, or mountain buckler fern, is much like the 

 preceding species. The fronds rise to the height of from one to 

 three feet, in a circuar fashion, from a crown. It occurs abundantly 

 in woods and heathy commons. It has one great peculiarity, being 

 very fragrant if bruised or drawn through the hand, and is of easy 

 cultivation. 



Lastrea ccmula, or hay-scented buckler fern, is an elegant, mode- 

 rately-sized plant, of a tufted circular habit of growth, the fronds 

 ruing from a crown. They are divided and subdivided, the lobes 

 round the margins of the divisions recurve inwardly, giving the 

 entire frond a peculiar crisped appearance. The fronds are triangular 



September. 



