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iv the form of square pieces of pottery, which may be nailed flat against the 
wall. In the lower portion of the front appears a projection of a shell, and with- 
in it is a small cavity for holding the plants. Being of various sizes, any style 
of arrangement can be ingeniously formed, and at slight expense. 
These designs are as yet unknown in the United States, but can be quickly 
imported to order by anyone; or our pottery manufacturers could soon supply 
any demand by making any pattern and casting therefrom. 
They are elegant in appearance and effect, and the general testimony is to the 
effect that the ferns thrive very well in them. 
Fig. 6:1.— Feru Stand. Fig. 64.— Fern Stand. 
Figs. 52 and 53 introduce several pretty Parlor Ferneries,, of easy manufacture, 
the former in the shape of a rectangle, about 2 feet long by one and a quarter foot 
wide, and two feet in height. The other with six sides, curving to the top, 
from which suspends a little wire hanging basket. These designs are so»n 
constructed by any cabinet maker. 
A pleasant story is told of a gardener near London, England, who, instead of 
following the invariable fashion of devoting the high stone walls surrounding his 
enclosed garden, to wall fruit, determined to cover it with ferns. 
" The wall was 14 feet in height and 400 feet in length. It was then very old, 
and having been originally built of a dark red brick, much in use in that day 
m the district, it had a venerable and picturesque appearance. From the 
ground line to the summit it was all the summer long dotted over with ferny 
tufts of herbage, some sparklina; with the hue of emerald, others shading off to 
