FLOWERING-PLANTS TO GROW WITH FERNS. 167 



This is one of the places which should be devoted 

 to experiments ; one of its greatest charms being 

 the discovery, as spring opens, of plants in good 

 condition which had been placed there the season 

 before, with some misgivings as to their survival. 

 It is possible, at very little expense of money 

 or trouble, always to bring something to the fern- 

 ery from our short journeys or country walks ; 

 and the experiments thus tried serve both to in- 

 terest us at the time, and add to the plants to be 

 watched for and hailed with pleasure as other 

 seasons come. 



