CATALOGUE OF HABDY FEKS3 AND OCT-DOOR FERNERY. S!> 
HARDY FERNS & OUT-DOOR FERNERY. 
A corner may be appropriately set apart for the cultivatiou of hardy 
fenifi, BB these appear to much better advantage when planted together,- 
or at must combined -with such -wild plants as are naturally associated 
with them, than "when set among other plants. As a geneml thing, hardy 
ferns need shade ; they also mostly require a "well drained spot^ with a 
a eoiJ composed largely of leaf-mould. One of the most sucoessftil out- 
door ferneries -we ever saw was in a city yard. A pile of large stones- 
was made in a shady comer; the not "very distant woods furnished the 
leaf-mould and a large share of the ferns. No special care was observed 
in building the rock- work, except to observe the essentiRl point already 
stated under **Eock--work,'* that is, to have the upper portions of the 
soil in communication with the earth below. The ferns were so abun- 
dant and flourished so well, that their graceful fronds quite hid from 
sight the rudeness of the rock-work, and made a mass of the most 
charming foliage. Such a fernery is -within the reach of almost every 
one. Of course those not restricted to a city yard will aelect a nook 
shaded otherwise than by house-wollB. Almost every neighborhood fur- 
nishes some species of ferns which may be brought with good clumps of 
earth around their roots and placed in the fernery, imitating as ranch as- 
may be their natural location. "Wo give here a few of the rarer and de- 
sirable hardy kinds. Many moke the mistake of filling their in-door fer- 
neries or window-cases with the graceful ferns they find in their sumnitr 
rambles, and not knowing that most of these are deciduous, i-.^., die 
down at the end of SAimmer, are disappointed at the result. As a rule, 
only evergreen ferns, whether native or foreign, are useful for in-door 
culture. Of course the outdoor fernery must not bo allowed to suffer for 
lack of moisture, and provision must be made for watering when this i» 
needed. 
The tender varieties are marked with a * 
SAOB. DOZXK. 
Adiantum pcdatum. — MMen-JIair M..f 20 $2.00 
Aspidium acroslicholdes 20 2.00 
aculealum 25 2.50 
*Floridianum. 20 2.00 
marglnale 20 2.0O 
munilum 20 2.00 
♦patens - 25 2.50 
Asplenium angustifolium » IS 1.50 
ebeneum 15 1.50 
ebenoldes. — Very lUre 85 3.60 
Trichomanes ..■.....-....,..•.•"> ^ ■''^ 
Bolrychium lanceolalum , * 15 i.50 
lernalum var. dissectum I'' ^ ••''0 
" obliquum • l** 1-^0 
Virginicum .* • ^'^^ 
Camplosorus rhizophyllus.— TKaW^'n^ F«7i ^ 1^ 
•Chcilanlhes Clevelandii ^-^^O 
•microphylla 30 3.00 
