New and Cheaper Edition in Preparation. 
THE FERN WORLD. 
By FRANCIS GEORGE HEATH, 
Author of “ Our Woodland Trees,” “The Fern Paradise,” “The English 
Peasantry,” “The ‘Romance ’of Peasant Life,” &c., &c. 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
“THE FERN WORLD” is Illustrated by Twelve Coloured Plates— giving complete 
figures ( sixty-four in all ) of every species of British Fern, specially printed from. 
Nature, and executed in the best style of Chromo-Lithography ; by several Full-page 
Engravings of some of the choicest of Devonshire Scenery ; by a Permanetit Photo- 
graphic Fro7itispiece ; and by Woodcuts. 
CONTENTS. 
PART I. 
The Fern World.— Introduction — The Germs of Fern Life— Conditions of Growth- 
Structure — Classification — Distribution— Uses— The Folk-lore of Ferns. 
PART II. 
Fern Culture. — Introduction — Soil and Aspect — General Treatment — Propagation — A 
Fern Valley — Subterranean Fern Culture — A Fern Garden — Fern Rockery— A Fern 
House — Pot Culture of Ferns — Ferns at Home. 
PART III. 
Fem Hunting. — Introduction — Fern Holidays — Fern Collecting — Frond Gathering. 
PART IV. 
Some Rambles through Fernland.— Introduction— Down a Combe to the Sea— 
The Valleys of the Lyn — The Valley of the Rocks— Clcvelly — Sea and Sky, and Waving 
green — Torbay — The South-east Coast of Devon — The Home of the Sea Fern. 
PART V. 
British Ferns : their Description, Distribution, and Culture.— Introduction 
— The Bracken — The Hartstongue— The Lady Fern — The Hard Fern — The Royal Fern 
— The True Maidenhair — The Annual Maidenhair— The Mountain Parslej' Fem — The 
Bristle Fern — The Moonwort — Tne Adders-tongue — The Little Adders-tongue — The 
Common Polypody — The Mountain Polypody — The Three-branched Polypody — The 
Limestone Polypody — The Alpine Polypody — The Hard Prickly Shield Fern — The Soft 
Prickly Shield Fern — The Holly Fern -The Brittle Bladder Fern — The Alpine Bladder 
Fern — The Mountain Bladder Fern — The Oblong Woodsia— The Alpine Woodsia- The 
Male Fern — The Broad Buckler Fern — The Hay-scented Buckler Fern— The Rigid 
Buckler Fern — The Crested Buckler Fern--The Prickly-toothed Buckler Fern -The 
Mountain Buckler Fern — The Marsh Buckler Fern — The Forked Spleenwort — The 
Alternate Spleenwort — The Rue-leaved Spleenwort — The Black Maidenhair Spleenwort 
— The Lanceolate Spleenwort — The Rock Spleenwort — The Green Spleenwort — The 
Common Maidenhair Spleenwort — The Sea Spleenwort — The Scaly Spleenwort — The 
Tunbridge Filmy Fern— The One sided Filmy Fern. 
SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF “THE FERN WORLD.” 
Athenceum. 
“ Mr. Heath has really given us good, well-written descriptions of our native ferns, with 
indications of their habitats, the conditions under which they grow naturally, and under which 
they may he cultivated.” 
London : 
The COUNTRY PRESS, 19, Ball Street, Kensington, W. 
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