FERTILE FRONDS PARTIALLY LEAF-LIKE, 

 FERTILE PORTION UNLIKE REST OF FROND 



The following lines from Wordsworth point to 

 still another origin of the generic name : 



" often, trifling with a privilege 

 Alike indulged to all, we paused, one now, 

 And now the other, to point out, perchance 

 To pluck, some flower, or water-weed, too fair 

 Either to be divided from the place 

 On which it grew, or to be left alone 

 To its own beauty. Many such there are, 

 Fair ferns and flowers, and chiefly that tall fern, 

 So stately, of the Queen Osmunda named ; 

 Plant lovelier, in its own retired abode 

 On Grasmere's beach, than Naiad by the side 

 Of Grecian brook, or Lady of the Mere, 

 Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance." 



The Royal Fern may be cultivated easily in deep 

 mounds of rich soil shielded somewhat from the 

 suru 



