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The Fern World. 



By FRANCIS GEORGE HEATH, 



Author of "THE FEEN PAF.ADISE." 



In large post 8vo, bound in cloth, gilt edges, about 400 pages, price 12s. 6d. 



COLOURED PLATES, WOODCUTS, &c. 



Me. Heath's new work is illustrated by Twelve Coloured Plates, 

 giving complete figures (sixty-four in all) of every Species of British 

 Fern, specially printed from Nature, and executed in the best style 

 of Ohromolithography, by several Full-page Engravings of some of 

 the choicest Scenery of Devon, and a permanent Photograph. 



CONTENTS. 



3?.A-!R,T I. 



THE FERN WORLD.— Introduction— The Germs of Tern 

 Life — Conditions of Growth — Structure — Classification — Distri- 

 bution — Uses — The Folk-lore of Ferns. 



PART II. 



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 Col- 

 lecting — Frond Gathering. 



PART IV. 



SOME RAMBLES THROUGH FERNLAND.— Intro- 

 duction — Down a Combe to the Sea — The Valleys of the Lyn — 

 The Valleys of the Eocks — Clovelly — Sea and Sky, and Wavino- 

 Green — Torbay — The South-east Coast of Devon — The Home of 

 the Sea Fern. 



PART -v. 



BRITISH FERNS, their Description, Distribution, and Culture. 

 The Chapters in this Section occupy half the entire work, and 

 contain a very large amount of information on the subject of 

 our Native Ferns. 



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