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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
planted with suitable ferns. In such a space you may find room 
and proper positions for every one of our native ferns, except such 
few as it is not possible to cultivate out of doors. There would be 
a fernery and bower combined, green and cool, and dark at all 
times, a charming place in summer, and not quite a desolation in 
winter ; for with the shelter afforded, especially if the side towards 
the east were made pretty close with rustic trellis, the majority of 
the plants would carry their fronds through the winter ; and by drain- 
ing off superfluous water a warm air would prevail within that would 
be just sufficient to bring them on in early spring, without weaken- 
ing them so much in autumn as to risk their winter existence. 
The shedding of the foliage of the trailing plants outside would 
give freer access to the light in winter, and the strong light of 
summer would be shaded off by the thickening of the foliage then ; 
but if at that bright season too deep a gloom prevailed, it would be 
the fault of the pruning-knife, not of the scheme itself. It would 
cost next to nothing, for if you were tired of fern-growing — and the 
attentions requisite would in this case be reduced to a minimum — you 
might pull down the structure, and get back the cost of the timber 
by turning it into firewood; and as the ferns and other plants would 
increase considerably, the nursery stock would be worth more than 
it was at starting so that a fernery of this description is cheap 
enough for the humblest lover of the beautiful, and choice enough 
for the most wealthy connoisseur of taste in gardening. 
A SELECTION OF ONE HUNDRED SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF HARDY 
FERNS. 
The undermentioned selection includes only the most beautiful 
hardy ferns at present in cultivation, and those only are named 
which will grow on an ordinary rockery without any special treat- 
ment. 
British. — Adiantum nigrum, Asplenium lanceolatum, A. tricbo- 
manes cristatum, A. t. lobatum, Athyrium filix-fmmina, A. f.f. com- 
positum, A. f.f. conoides, A. f.f. corymbiferum, A. f.f. diffissum, A. 
f.f. diffisso-multifidum, A. f.f. Elworthi, A. f.f. Fieldiae, A. f.f. 
Frizelli®, A. f.f. frondosum, A. f.f. gracile, A. f.f. grandiceps, A. f.f. 
Grantiae, A. f.f. laciniatum majus, A. f.f. multifidum, A. f.f. plumo- 
sum, Blechnum spicant multifurcatum, B. spicant ramosum, 
Ceterach officinarura crenatum, Cystopteris fragilis, C. fragilis 
Dickeana, C. montana, Lastrea aemula, L. cristata spinulosa, L. 
dilitata angustipinnula, L. dilitata collina, L. dilitata grandidens, L. 
filix-mas, L. f.m. Bollandise, L. f.m. cristata, L. f.m. angustata, L. 
f.m. furcans, L. f.m. grandiceps, L. f.m. paleacea, L. montana crispa, 
Osmunda regalis, O. regalis cristata, Polypodium alpestre, P. 
alpestre flexile, P. dryopteris (Oak fern), P. phegopteris (Beech 
fern), P. vulgare, P. vulgare cambricum, P. vulgare cristatum, P. 
vulgare omnilacerum, P. vulgare semilacerum, Polystichum aculea- 
tum, P. aculeatum lobatum, P. angulare acutilobum, P. angulare 
brachiatum, P. angulare concinnum, P. angulare cristatum, P. angu- 
lare grandiceps, P. angulare grandidens, P. angulare latipes, P. 
