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FERN WORK'. 
Wild Allamanda, or Tecoma. 
Tecoma stans. Order Bignoniaceae. Native of 
the West Indies and Mexico, &c. A common road- 
side shrub, with "compound leaves, flowers borne in 
clusters, corolla bright yellow, about i ~ inches long. 
Seeds are winged and borne in a long narrow 
capsule. 
FERN WORK. 
There are about five hundred species of 
ferns in Jamaica, many of which grow luxuri- 
antly in various parts of the Island, amply 
supplying the demand of collectors, whether 
interested in the subject, per se , or preparing 
fern books and fancy work for sale. Very 
attractive indeed are some of these books and 
fancy work (doilies, lamp-shades, &c.) Moss, 
lichen and mountain-cabbage “bark” are 
generally associated with the ferns in these 
articles. To see our ferns at their best, how- 
ever, visitors should certainly arrange to 
spend a part of their holiday in some country 
district, where endless varieties, from the 
minute Filmy to the lofty Tree Fern, grow 
naturally : there they fulfil the laws of their 
kind of which but the beauty, and not the 
reason, is fully apparent (PI. IV.) 
The Port Royal Mountains in St. Andrew 
and the Fern Gully in St. Ann are, perhaps, 
the districts in which visitors will be most 
likely to see our ferns to best advantage. 
Pressing, in order to preserve the ferns, is 
generally done by placing them in old books, 
and gives very little trouble ; unsized paper, 
being more absorbent, is better than the 
smooth sized kind. 
