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A cocoanut may be formed into a very neat basket by 

 sawing off the top and burning holes half an inch across 

 all over the shell with two small ones at the top opposite 

 each other for the wire to suspend it by ; if in this a fern 

 is planted which has running roots with leaf buds, the effect 

 is in time to cover the whole shell with the beautiful foli- 

 age, as these little roots find their way to every hole before 

 long. For this, Adiantum setulosum and A. ^Ethio- 

 pium are the best. Baskets to hang in the top of a fern 

 case may be made of thin pliable bark, wired together. 

 Wire baskets lined with moss and filled with earth are 

 fine for ferns with stems which run on top of the soil, such 

 as most of the Davallias, Polypodium aureum a native of 

 Florida, and others. The hare's foot fern is one such, 

 throwing out woolly feet in advance of the leaves. A log 

 hollowed out on one end is most suitable to grow the stag 

 horn ferns upon ; they will in time form huge crowns on 

 the top of the log, while little creeping species may be 

 grown successfully on the side at the same time if wired 

 on with a little moss and earth. Hollow stone ware pil- 

 lows are made with pockets in the sides, the centre filled 

 with earth, ferns planted in the pockets, and the whole 

 covered with a bell glass. Wire netting can be formed 

 into a tube filled with coarse earth, and ferns inclined to 

 climb by rooting stems, as the ivy does, can be made to 

 cover it with foliage. In fact, there is no end to the vari- 

 ety of design that can be introduced into the fernery 

 whether it be a simple bell glass or a structure one hun- 

 dred feet long by forty wide and high. Of this latter 

 class of ferneries most beautiful ones are described in 

 foreign books, where sometimes the side walls are of turf 

 covered with the creeping Lycopods and ferns, while little 

 brooks, mimic waterfalls and ponds add both to the beauty 

 of the place and to the air, the moisture necessary for the 



