A FERN GARDEN 73 
enclosing walls to the water level, broken up between into 
banks and walls of rock. 
If it be possible to obtain a high pressure of water for the 
central fountain over the basin, a spreader could be substi- 
tuted for a jet, and in this way a thin misty shower of water 
could be distributed all over the garden. If its area, however, 
be too large for one jet to reach all its sides, others could be 
introduced in convenient positions. 
Under such conditions as have been described, there are 
very few indeed of our native Ferns which might not be 
successfully grown in the open garden. If the means or 
opportunities of the cultivator be limited, the plan suggested 
for a Fern garden could at least be carried out in miniature ; 
and if a sufficiently high service of water could not be 
obtained to moisten itlie entire area of the garden, or, if 
there be no means of constructing a basin of water, 
there might be a simple arrangement carried out by 
means of which a modest rill of trickling water could be 
maintained over a little group of rockery. 
