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more, Beauvoir, Marchmont, Hamwood, &c, — acquire 

 most valuable hints how to identify, cultivate, and where 

 to find the above fronded plants. 



Before closing these concise remarks, we may state 

 that Ferns are cultivated in diverse ways : 



1° From their spores, or seeds, deposited in pots with 

 earth in a damp, still, warm atmosphere. 



2° In artificial Rockeries, made out of " massive 

 fragments of old mossy rocks, &c.," placed near a steep 

 bank, if possible, and well shaded from the south by 

 trees. It requires of course some art, in order to give to 

 these structures the needed ruggedness of outline, &c, 

 to imitate nature. 



3° By forming out of tree- stumps and damp mould 

 a Rootery with a suitably shaded aspect, against the 

 wall if possible, — a cherished home for several varieties 

 of Ferns. 



4° The most interesting method for growing Ferns 

 in dwellings is in the Wardian Case, whether in the 

 soil or with miniature rockwork introduced, — a most 

 attractive ornament for the drawing-room, especially 

 during those frosty months in which King Hiems reigns 

 supreme and scowls at parterres and pleasure grounds. 



The Wardian Case is susceptible of assuming any 

 shape or size ; it was iuvented about 1830, by an 

 enthusiastic London window-gardener — 1ST. B. Ward. 



Mr. Paxton's Hand booh contains ample details on 

 all these points. Rockeries, Rooteries, Wardian Cases, 

 have now been introduced with success for several 

 years, at the Sillery and Ste. Foye Villas, and at Mr. Hy. 

 Atkinson's residence at Etchemin. 



July is the month to seek in swampy grounds the 

 Purple-Fringed Orchis, the spike of which resembles 

 a stately hyacinth ; the sickly Henbane growing one 

 or two feet high, with its veined flower, somewhat like 

 that of the Potato — in the Cove Fields and often on 

 the Glacis ; that medicinal plant, the Hemlock, the 

 fatal juice of which filled the fatal cup of Socrates, a 



