CHAPTER III. 
FEBNS ON THE LAWN. 
OW easy it would be to change the dreary 
outlook from the windows of many a 
house by a small amount of attention 
to the ornamental capabilities of Ferns ! The term 
e lawn 5 we use in the widest possible sense, and 
as indicating not merely the lewel grassy expanse 
—of large or small extent—in front, in the rear, 
at the sides of, or all around a house, but spaces 
of any kind immediately contiguous to a dwelling. 
In this sense we include eyen the tiny strips of grayel 
fronting tens of thousands of city and suburban 
residences, no less than the similar strips of grayel 
payement, or bare earth which do seryice, as court¬ 
yards or curtilages, in the rear of such residences. 
