THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



APRIL, 1828. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. 



Art. I. Catalogue of the Hardy and Exotic Ferns in the 

 Garden of Robert Barclay, Esq. F.L.S. U.S. S^c, at Bury 

 Hill, Surrey, imth Directions for their' Culture. By Mr. 

 David Cameron, A.L.S., Gardenei- at Bury Hill. 



T Sir, 



AN compliance with your request, I now send a list of the 

 ferns cultivated in this garden, together with a short account 

 of their treatment, which, I hope, may assist in bringing 

 this long neglected tribe of plants into more general notice. 

 Of this they are the more deserving, since they thrive best in 

 situations where but few other plants will succeed. 



In this garden the free-growing hardy sorts are planted out 

 in a north border, which is shaded from the sun by the wall, 

 in a bed of light sandy peat soil, about 15 in. in depth. They 

 were first established in pots, and turned out into the bed with 

 their balls entire, where they thrive luxuriantly without any 

 other care than occasional waterings in very dry weather. In 

 spring about half an inch of fresh peat soil is put over the surface 

 of the bed, to cover the roots that have got to the surface ; and 

 the creeping-rooted sorts are at the same time reduced within 

 proper bounds, to prevent the species from getting inter- 

 mixed. 



[In order to give a general view of the whole of the fern 

 tribe, hardy and exotic, we have, in the following ten engrav- 

 ings, figured eighty species of nearly forty genera. A number 

 of these species are not in the garden of Bury Hill, and there- 

 fore not in Mr. Cameron's list; but they may all be obtained 

 from Messrs. Loddiges, or Mr. Shepherd of the Liverpool 

 botanic garden.] 



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