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in Sphagnum Moss and wet places in leaf mould. Flowers rose colored or 
white. Stalk 4 to 10 inches high. 10 cents each, SI per dozen. 
SPIRANTHES cernua (Ladies’ Tresses)—Grows 6 to 20 inches high. 
Leafy below, bearing at the summit a dense spike of white flowers. 10 cents 
each, 81.10 per dozen, 
gracilis—10 cents each, $1 per dozen. 
TIPIILARIA discolor — From a solid bulb, which throws up in autumn a 
single leaf, remaining on through the winter like Calpyso and Aplectrum, and 
in summer throws up a flower stalk 6 to 12 inches, along which grow many 
small greenish flowers. 15 cents each, $1.50 per dozen. 
Our I I ardy Perns. 
Our Hardy Ferns fill a place in our North American flora that is worthy of our 
careful study. Nature is very generous in her planting, and we find every wooded 
dell decked with these graceful, flowerless gems. They are so easily handled, 
require so little care, and give such general satisfaction, that we cannot well do 
without them. There is such a great variety from which to select that we are sure 
to find some of the number just fitted for the flowerless nook or shaded bank, that 
could not readily be brightened with other plants, or they can be made to add a 
'charm to the bed or bank of flowers; and many dreary places shut out from the 
sunlight can be made brighter by a clump of ferns. Most of the following are of 
very easy culture and hardy in New England. As a rule they delight in a shady 
situation, yet a few are adapted for open sunlight. 
ADIANTIM pedal 11 Ill (Maiden Hair)—One of the prettiest. It grows 
about a foot high, in rich 
shades, bearing at the sum¬ 
mit a forked frond composed 
of slender spreading divi¬ 
sions. Clumps 20 cents each, 
$1.25 per dozen clumps. 
ASPIDIUMacroslichoides— 
Aii evergreen species, about a 
foot high, with deep green 
fronds, simply divided. Al¬ 
though it is one of our com¬ 
mon species, it is a pretty 
one, and easily grown. Har¬ 
dy. 15 cents each, $1 per 
dozen. 
aculeatum var. Braunii—A 
rarer, more local species, 
growing along the margins 
of mountain brooks. The 
fronds are often 2 feet in 
length by 0 inches in width, 
chatty and hairy throughout. 
20 cents each, 81.50 per dozen, 
cristatum—This species grows 
from 1 to 2 feet, in moist 
shades, with fronds about 3 
inches wide. 10 cents each, 
$1 per dozen. 
cristatum var. Clintonianum 
— In every way larger than 
the preceding, sometimes at¬ 
taining a height of four feet, 
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