PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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In designing a piece of ground our effort is to 
make a picture. The lawn is our canvas, and upon 
it we place our buildings, trees, and shrubs, in such 
positions as to give the best effect, and then, for the 
sake of convenience, introduce walks and drives, 
but give them a secondary importance. An artist 
would not paint a white streak or band across the 
foreground of his picture, and so divide it in two. 
The same may be said of the design of grounds; he 
does not give undue importance to the road or drive , 
but instead, considers his creation a picture, and 
does not mar it by placing a streak of gravel or 
macadam across the face of it. Instead he considers 
the walks and drives as mere accessories not to be 
given prominence. Therefore let me close by say- 
ing that, although the walk or drive is purely for 
use, when we are constructing the home grounds, 
we should not fail to consider it as a subordinate 
feature and yet, when seen, to be pleasing in its 
various features. Bryant Fleming. 
CINNAMON AND OTHER FERNS. 
To those who love plants and especially the 
wild ones of our woods, ferns are deeply interesting. 
Tlieir varied growth, lovely outline and singular way 
of fruiting, afford a greal deal of pleasure to those 
who love them. 
There are slow growing sorts, medium ones and 
tall growers, deciduous kinds and those of ever- 
green character. In a collection of a dozen sorts 
one would find as much variety as in a dozen of 
any other genus. 
Though many persons may have heard or have 
read of Jlotvcring ferns, but few really know what 
they are, or that there are such varieties. The il- 
lustration' presented herewith is of the Cinnamon 
fern, Osmunda cinnamonea, one of the most beau- 
tiful of large growing ferns, and one of the flower- 
ing sort. The “flowers” will be seen in the centre 
of the fronds, but the color, that of cinnamon must 
be seen on a living plant to judge of the pleasing 
contrast it makes with the deep green of the fronds. 
These flower spikes are really fertile fronds. In 
til's and some other ferns, the fruit dots are not on 
the back of some of its fronds as is the case with 
most all ferns, but arc arranged separately in spikes, 
as shown in the picture. When plants are of some 
age, as this one is, a dozen or so of these fertile 
fronds will be enclosed by the barren ones, and a 
prettier display cannot be desired. 
There are not many native ferns produce the 
fronds separate as this does, though two other Os- 
mundas, the regalis and the Claytoniana do so, in 
a measure. The Ostrich ferns, Strulhiopteus, and 
the sensitive fern, Onoclea sensibilis, do the same. 
and so do some of more humble growth, such as the 
various Botrychiums. 
Ferns like partial shade and to be damp at the 
root. In such situations the cinnamon fern will 
make fronds 5 feet in height, with fertile ones of 
the same height. The illustration represents one 
of three feet, but it is in cultivation, though let 
grow much as it will. It is planted close to a house 
where the sun shines on it but to 9 A.M., after which 
for the rest of the day it is in the shade. The wall 
is thickly clad with Ampclopsis Veitchii, which the 
photographer thought best to hide, but the vine is 
of good service in this, that when the leaves fall in 
autumn they are permitted to lie over the plants 
altogether, letting the new fronds push through the 
decaying leaves in spring. These leaves are of very 
great help to the plants, keeping frost from the 
CINNAMON FKRN. OS'MUNDA CINNAMONE.\. 
roots, preserving moisture in summer, and in the 
course of time rotting and furnishing just the kind 
of food ferns delight in. 
The best time to secure native ferns is in late 
summer, when growth is perfected. The height 
they attain and their general appearance are shown 
then, and growth being perfected the plants stand 
removal. 
There are several large growing ones of ever- 
green character which should be obtained if possi- 
ble. Aspidium marginole, A. acrostichoides, and 
A. spinulosum are three ofthem, and there are those 
of smaller growth among the Aspleniums and 
Polypodiums. 
These evergreen ones are pleasing until snow 
covers them, which is always long after the decidu- 
ous sorts have faded and disappeared for the 
season. Joseph Meehan. 
