114 FERNS 



easily simulated. Copy Nature in detail as 

 fancy dictates and the woods are within 

 your door. 



Native ferns and exotics of heavy texture 

 only grace our fern case (Plate 30). A fine 

 specimen of the dwarf sword fern (Nephrolepis 

 cordata, var. compactd) figures on the left. 



On the right a hart's tongue (Phyllitis) is 

 flanked by the bulbiferous bladder fern 

 (Filix hulhifera), a variegated brake (Pteris) 

 stretching its long fingers through the central 

 hollow, giving the needed contrast in foliage. 

 Deciduous ferns like the bladder and beech 

 ferns (Filix and Phegopteris) have no staying 

 qualities, as they easily damp off^, but all the 

 same they are worth growing, if only for a 

 limited season. 



The possessor of a roomy fern case with 

 movable panels will find much pleasure by 

 introducing flowering plants of the months 

 as they come and go. The wild ginger opens 

 the season always in my wild garden out of 

 doors and in. Jack-in-the-pulpit appears in 

 March. Arbutus buds and pussy-willows 



