( i ) 
WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR . 
FOURTH EDITION. 
In Large Post Svo, bound in cloth {gold lettered , with ferns on bluish-grey ground), 
gilt edges , 470 pages , price 12 s. 6d. 
THEE FERN 'W’O JREXX 
By FRANCIS GEORGE HEATH, 
Author ok “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 
Future, and executed in the best style of Chrorno-Lithography; by several Full-page 
Engravings of some of the choicest of Devonshire Scenery; by a Permanent Photo¬ 
graphic Frontispiece ; and by IVoodcuts. 
CONTENTS. 
FART 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. 
Fern Hunting. —Introduction—Fern Holidays—Fern 
Gathering. 
PART IV. 
Collecting—F rond 
Some Rambles through Fernland. —Introduction—Down a Combe to 
the Sea—The Valleys of the Lyn—The Valley of the Rocks—Clovelly— 
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. —This 
Part occupies nearly 250 pages, and contains a large amount of informa¬ 
tion respecting our native Ferns. 
