CHAPTER VII 

 Fern Rockeries Indoors 



Fern culture approaches the ideal when 

 we take the rocks indoors as well as the ferns. 

 The fascination of a rock garden is even 

 greater indoors for those who appreciate the 

 luxury of "pokin' 'round" mid ferns and 

 mosses in midwinter. 



If the association of rock and fern is a 

 design in Nature for cooling the atmosphere 

 and retaining moisture for the benefit of the 

 root growth, how imperative the need of 

 such environment indoors, where no refresh- 

 ing dews counteract the dryness and overheat. 

 Nature gives her choicest ferns a rocky setting, 

 and here as elsewhere we should follow her 

 lead. Lawn rockeries are an old institu- 

 tion, but indoor affairs are not in the regular 

 schedule. 



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