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of Adiantum. Those that form underground rhizomes 

 travel quickly to the outer edge and form a perfect wall 

 of delicate verdure. 



A. assimile, A. glaucophyllum, and A. lunulatum will 

 be found the most satisfactory. 



The proper time for repotting or transplanting Ferns 

 is the month of March. A compost which will suit most 

 of them can be made of two parts fibrous peat, one of 

 good loam, with plenty of sand and sandstone broken 

 small. 



The more delicate sorts prefer sandy peat only. 



CHAPTER VII 



CONSTRUCTION OF FERNERIES 



No plant perhaps has so great a power of imparting to a 

 garden a certain charm of homeliness and personal interest 

 as the Fern. Owing to some association of place or person 

 from which it may have been procured, an individual Fern 

 can possess an interest for the planter so special as to 

 amount almost to an affection, and he will return to visit it 

 again and again with ever fresh interest. 



And yet, though it is good to have our favourite Ferns 

 up and down through the garden, specially when we find 

 that they thrive in it, one cannot help feeling that they are 

 worthy of some special corner of their own ; this should be, 

 not in the full view of every passer-by, and not in the full 



