FERNS ON THE LAWN. 
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dise. With three kinds of material—stones of 
different shapes, cement, and Fern soil—he would 
speedily work wonders, even if there were four 
walls of brick and a stone pavement to deal with. 
The four corners of the courtyard would provide 
room for four rockeries, and the previously bare 
walls could be covered by the use of trowel and 
-cement, aided by small pieces of stones, with many 
a Fern pocket. If it were desired to exhibit a 
mass of green on the walls and to afford addi¬ 
tional shelter for the Ferns in pockets, a Virginian 
creeper could be planted and trailed over the 
upper sides of the walls. Or by a system of short 
rods projecting at certain places from the walls of 
a courtyard, Fern-pots and baskets could be sus¬ 
pended in such a way as to cover the entire super¬ 
ficies of a bare wall. 
Indeed, it will require but a little knowledge, a 
comparatively small amount of time, and a small 
outlay of money to turn the dreariest of court¬ 
yards, window outlooks, area 4 wells,’ and all 
unoccupied spaces around a dwelling into smiling 
paradises of Ferns. 
