XXXVI 



THE PARLOR FERNERY 



ERNS, as we all know, are 

 more difficult to grow than 

 many other plants, but 

 this does not prevent the 

 lover of fine plants from 

 wishing she could grow 

 them. The question is 

 often asked, "Isn't there some in which I 

 could make a success ? I wouldn't mind ex- 

 pense or trouble if I could have one really 

 good Fern." 



There is but one solution for this difficulty in 

 the home where these plants fail to do well in 

 the window, and that is the fernery, or fern-case. 

 The fern-case is, to all intents and purposes, 

 a miniature greenhouse in which the air can 

 be kept at almost any desired degree of mois- 

 ture. The hot, dry air of the room is shut out, 

 and the humid atmosphere within makes it 

 possible to grow many plants which could not 

 be grown outside such an enclosure, in the or- 

 dinary living-room. 



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