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WORKS BY FRANCIS GEORGE HEATH. 
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FOURTH EDITION. 
In Large Post 8vo, bound in cloth (gold lettered, with ferns on bluish-grey ground), 
gilt edges, 470 pages, price 12s. 6d. 
THE FERN WORLD. 
By FRANCIS GEORGE HEATH, 
Autor oF “Our Woopranp Tress,” “THE Fern Parapisz,” “THE ENGLISH 
Pzasantry,” “THe ‘Romancg’ or Peasant Lire,” &c., &c. 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
“THE FERN WORLD” ds Illustrated by Twelve Coloured Plates—giving complete 
Jigures (sixty-four in all) of every species of British Fern, specially printed from 
Nature, and executed in the best style of Chromo-Lithography ; by several Full-page 
Engravings of some of the choicest of Devonshire Scenery; by a Permanent Photo- 
graphic Frontispiece; and by Woodcuts. 
CONTENTS. 
PART I. 
The Fern World.—Introduction—The Germs of Fern Life—Conditions of Growth— 
Structure—Classification—Distribution—Uses—The Folk-lore of Ferns. 
PART ITI. 
Fern Culture,—Introduction—Soil and Aspect—General Treatment—Propagation—A 
Fern Valley—Subterranean Fern Culture—A Fern Garden—Fern Rockery—A Fern 
House—Pot Culture of Ferns—Ferns at Home. 
PART III. 
Fern Hunting.—Introduction—Fern Holidays—Fern Collecting—Frond Gathering. 
PART Iv. 
Some Rambles through Fernland.—Introduction—Down a Combe to the Sea— 
The Valleys of the Lyn—The Valley of the Rocks—Clovelly—Sea and Sky, and Waving 
green—Torbay—The South-east Coast of Devon—The Home of the Sea Fern. 
PART V. 
British Ferns: their Description, Distribution, and Culture.—Introduction 
—The Bracken—The Hartstongue—The Lady Fern—The Hard Fern—The Royal Fern 
—The True Maidenhair—The Annual Maidenhair—The Mountain Parsley Fern—The 
Bristle Fern—The Moonwort—The Adders-tongue—The Little Adders-tongue—The 
Common Polypody~The Mountain Polypody—The Three-branched Polypody—The 
Limestone Polypody—The Alpine Polypody—The Hard Prickly Shield Feru—The Soft 
Prickly Shield Fern—The Holly Fern—The Brittle Bladder Fern—The Alpine Bladder 
Fern—The Mountain Bladder Fern—The Oblong Woodsia—The Alpine Woodsia— The 
Male Fern—The Broad Buckler Fern—The Hay-scented Buckler Fern—The Rigid 
Buckler Fern—The Crested Buckler Fern—The Prickly-toothed Buckler Fern—The 
Mountain Buckler Fern—The Marsh Buckler Fern—The Forked Spleenwort—The 
Alternate Spleenwort—The Rue-leaved Spleenwort—The Black Maidenhair Spleenwort 
—The Lanceolate Spleenwort—The Rock 5 sae eee Green Spleenwort—The 
Common Maidenhair Spleenwort—The Sea Spleenwort—The Scaly Spleenwort—The 
Tunbridge Filmy Fern—The One-sided Filmy Fern. (Over. 
