HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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October, 
1910 
Printing Office, Washington, D. C. It 
gives a complete report of the work being 
carried on at the four experiment stations, 
together with extracts from letters writ¬ 
ten by growers'showing results with dif¬ 
ferent seeds furnished by the stations. 
Successful Fern Growing 
by T. Celestine Cummings 
A CHARMING bit of delicate green, 
such as a fernery gives with its 
opening fronds, lends the finishing touch 
to a table and is within the reach of every 
housekeeper — for money. In the spring¬ 
time the busy woman has not the time to 
spare from her various household or social 
duties, to take a trip to the woodland to 
procure the tiny Ferns that are just show¬ 
ing their curled pink fronds above the 
brown earth, but instead she will send to 
a florist for her fernery, and nine times 
out of ten be sadly disappointed with her 
purchase. Her Ferns will wilt, and un¬ 
der the leaves will be found myriads of 
tiny brown insects or the equally harmful 
red spider. Of course a reputanle dealer 
will not be guilty of sending out inferior 
Ferns, but even so, they will be Ferns that 
have been raised in a greenhouse atmos¬ 
phere, and they will not be nearly so 
sturdy to adapt themselves to their new 
environment. 
A young woman that understood Fern 
growing, having made a success of it for 
her own garden, and indoors, when in 
need of a money-making occupation, start¬ 
ed in to growing quantities of the Ferns. 
She too had had experience with hot¬ 
house grown Ferns, and decided that all 
the Ferns she raised should be trans¬ 
planted from the woodland. 
Great care is taken in digging up the 
roots of these baby Ferns to leave plenty 
of earth attached to the roots. She takes 
along with her the receptacles in which 
the Ferns are to be planted and sets them 
right into these, with plenty of the parent 
soil pressed firmly and compactly around 
them, so that the growth of these tiny 
Ferns is not retarded to any great extent. 
The earth is well watered upon arriving 
at the house, which is only a short distance 
from one bit of woodland, where the 
Ferns are so numerous that she usually 
does not need to search further. 
The process of digging up the Ferns 
is simple but important to know, for the 
beginner. With an old knife draw a circle 
around the plant three inches from the 
center, and then loosen the earth with a 
long sharp trowel, which will enable you 
to reach clear down below the roots of the 
plant, working it gently backward and 
forward, until the entire clump may be 
readily removed. If not convenient to 
bring the Fern receptacles with you, wa¬ 
ter will be required to wet the ball of 
earth, and then each one should be 
wrapped in several thicknesses of wet 
paper and laid in the basket close to¬ 
gether. Protect the Ferns from the sun¬ 
light by a moist paper laid lightly over the 
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