FEN 



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FER 



been plnnned as if to show the amount | many ; for ourselves, we should choose 

 of money which could be thus expend- the latter, though it be not the best, 

 ed and after all, they rather disgust so far as the preservation of the wood 



than please. 



Fig. 43. 



is concerned." — Rural Reg. 



FENNEL {Anethum Fanicvlum) will 

 flourish in almost any soil or situation : 

 in a dry soil it is longest-lived. It is 

 propagated both by oftsets, partings of 

 the root, and by seed ; all of which 

 modes may be practised any time be- 

 tween the beginning of February and 

 the end of April. The best season, 

 however, for sowing, is autumn, soon 

 after the seed is ripe, at which time it 

 may also be planted with success. 



Insert the plants a foot apart, and the 



seed in drills, six or twelve inches 



asunder, according as it is intended that 



— I the plants are to be transplanted or to 



remain. 



' When advanced to the height of four 

 or five inches, if they are intended for 

 removal, the plants are pricked out 

 eight inches apart, to attain strength for 

 final planting in autumn or spring. 

 Water must be given freely at every 

 removal, and until established, if the 

 weather is at all dry. 



They require no other cultivation 

 than to be kept free from weeds ; and 

 the stalks of those that are not required 

 to produce seed to be cut down as 

 often as they run up in summer. If this 

 is strictly attended to, the roots will 

 last for many years ; but those which 

 are allowed to ripen their seed seldom 

 endure for more than five or six. 

 FENNEL-FLOWER. Nigella. 

 FENUGREK. Trigonella. 

 FERNELIA. Two species. Stove 

 evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Turfy 

 loam and peat. 



FERNS from the tropics present to 

 us some of the most beautiful forms to 

 be found in the vegetable world, and^ 

 now very generally are a portion of 

 collections of exotic plants. Mr. .T 

 Henderson, the florist, gives the follow- 

 ing directions for their cultivation : — 

 " Procure a number of small octagon- 

 I shaped hand-glasses about six inches in 

 "The figures 42, 43, 44, illustrate ! diameter, (more or less,) according to 

 three simple designs, formed by straight, the size of the pots intended to sow the 

 slats or pales, and therefore of the least ' seeds in, the side walls of each being 

 expense; thoy are readily executed, : high enough to admit the pot to stand 

 and agreeable from their simplicity. , underneath without touching the glass. 

 The colour which should be used, is of! " Pots.— These are to be about half 

 course a matter of taste ; white is gene- filled with well broken potsherds, the 

 rally preferred, though dark shades, finest at top ; then fill to within half an 

 even jet black, arc the most pleasing to ! inch of the rim with heath-mould, sifted 



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