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MY GARDEN. 



The number of .Foreign ferns which may be thoroughly depended 

 upon to live out of doors during the winter, is small. There are 

 three Osmundas. The 0. gracilis {fig. 88 1), which, grown out of doors 



Fig. 88o.— Adder's Tongue. 



Fin. 879. — Moon, Wort. 



Osmunda gracilis. 



in full sunshine, looks like a ridiculous, diminutive, stiff plant of the 

 O. regalis, is drooping and more elegant when grown in a greenhouse. 

 The 0. cinnamomea and the O. interrupta are also more beautiful when 

 grown in a greenhouse than when planted out of doors. The O. inter- 

 rupta (fig. 882) is one of the most beautiful of all ferns when well 

 grown. The fertile fronds are green for the upper few inches, then 



Fig. 883.— Cystopteris 

 butbifera. 



Fig. 883 a.— Pteiis 

 rotundifolia. 



Fig. 882.— O. interrupta. 



the fructification appears, and, lastly, the remainder of the frond is 

 green. The outer, or non-fertile fronds, form a series of curved lines 



