FERNS ON TUB LAWN. 



clise. "With three kinds of material stones of 

 different shapes, cement, and Fern soil he would 

 speedily work wonders, even if there were four 

 walls of brick and a stone pavement to deal with. 

 The four corners of the courtyard would provide 

 room for four rockeries, and the previously bare 

 walls could be covered by the use of trowel and 

 cement, aided by small pieces of stones, with many 

 a Fern pocket. If it were desired to exhibit a 

 mass of green on the walls and to afford addi- 

 tional shelter for the Ferns in pockets, a Virginian 

 creeper could be planted and trailed over the 

 upper sides of the walls. Or by a system of short 

 rods projecting at certain places from the walls of 

 a courtyard, Fern-pots and baskets could be sus- 

 pended in such a way as to cover the entire super- 

 ficies of a bare wall. 



Indeed, ii will require but a little knowledge, a 

 comparatively small amount of time, and a small 

 outlay of money to turn the dreariest of court- 

 yards, window outlooks, area ' wells,' and all 

 unoccupied spaces around a dwelling into smiling 

 paradises of Ferns. 



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