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The Fern Garden . 
You may call it a sublime hartstongue. It loves warmth, 
and thrives in the stove. A little practice, however, 
will suffice for its management in a warm greenhouse. 
Mr. Gibson had the daring to make a bed of a few 
dozens of this fern in a shady spot in Battersea Park 
in the summer of 1867, and not one of them suffered 
by exposure to the vulgar atmosphere of this degenerate 
clime. 
Woodwardia radicans, W. orientalis , grand large 
growing ferns that will bear many hardships, and yet 
live. The first is indispensable to a beginner who can 
find room for it, and as to growing it, look at it now and 
then, and it will be satisfied ; the other is of smaller 
growth, and scarcely less hardy ; it has a purplish tint 
when growing. Both produce young plants in abund- 
ance on their mature fronds. 
Exhibition Greenhouse Ferns. — The following 
form a rich and varied group of twelve adapted for 
exhibition : Lomaria gibba , Blechnum brasiliense , As - 
plenium dimorphum , Asplenium hemionitis (also known 
as Asplenium palmatum), Phlebodium sporodocarpum, 
Pteris cretica albo-lineata , Gleichenia flabellata , Micro - 
lepia plafyphylla , Nephrolepis exaltata , Thamnopteris 
australasica , Woodwardia radicans , Pteris flabellata 
var. crispa. 
