116 The Fern Garden. 



You may call it a sublime hartstongue. It loves warmth, 

 and thrives in the stove. A little practice, however, 

 will suffice for its management in a warm greenhouse. 

 Mr. Gibson had the daring to make a bed of a few 

 dozens of this fern in a shady spot in Battersea Park 

 in the summer of 1867, and not one of them suffered 

 by exposure to the vulgar atmosphere of this degenerate 

 clime. 



Woodwardia radicans, W. orientalis, grand large 

 growing ferns that will bear many hardships, and yet 

 live. The first is indispensable to a beginner who can 

 find room for it, and as to growing it, look at it now and 

 then, and it will be satisfied ; the other is of smaller 

 growth, and scarcely less hardy ; it has a purplish tint 

 when growing. Both produce young plants in abund- 

 ance on their mature fronds. 



Exhibition Greenhouse Ferns. — The following 

 form a rich and varied group of twelve adapted for 

 exhibition : Lomaria gibba, Blechnum brasiliense, As- 

 plenium dimorphum, Asplenium hemionitis (also known 

 as Asplenium palmatum), Phlebodium sporodocarpum, 

 Pteris cretica albo-lineata, Gleichenia flabettata, Micro- 

 lepia platyphylla, Nepkrolepis ewaltata, Thamnopteris 

 australasica, Woodwardia radicans, Pteris flabettata 

 var. crispa. 



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