A Plain and Easy Account of the British Ferns: Together with Their Classification, Arrangement of Genera, Structure, and Functions and a Glosssary of Technical and Other Terms |
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... closed or Ward's Case , in which not only Ferns but some other plants will live and thrive . Mr. Ward , the ingenious inventor of this device , suc- ceeds in cultivating many spring flowers - fairy roses , and the most luxuriant ...
... closed or Ward's Case , in which not only Ferns but some other plants will live and thrive . Mr. Ward , the ingenious inventor of this device , suc- ceeds in cultivating many spring flowers - fairy roses , and the most luxuriant ...
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... closed case it also does well , if protected from the direct heat of the sun , and supplied with fragments of stone , or mortar , or bits of slate . A peaty bog - earth is the best soil for it ; and , as in the case of all other ferns ...
... closed case it also does well , if protected from the direct heat of the sun , and supplied with fragments of stone , or mortar , or bits of slate . A peaty bog - earth is the best soil for it ; and , as in the case of all other ferns ...
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... closed case , as it re- quires so much more moisture than most others . The best plan to secure its continuance is to transplant it with some of its native earth into a pot with pure loam , and to keep the soil wetted during the winter ...
... closed case , as it re- quires so much more moisture than most others . The best plan to secure its continuance is to transplant it with some of its native earth into a pot with pure loam , and to keep the soil wetted during the winter ...
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... closed case , but does best on rock - work in the open air , in a shady situation . When this fern assumes a much more blunt form , it constitutes the variety called by botanists Aspidium Adiantum nigrum obtusum ; while sometimes it ac ...
... closed case , but does best on rock - work in the open air , in a shady situation . When this fern assumes a much more blunt form , it constitutes the variety called by botanists Aspidium Adiantum nigrum obtusum ; while sometimes it ac ...
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... closed case , from its objection to continual moisture without evaporation ; but this can be obviated by securing good drainage , and by occasionally admitting the air into the case . Mr. Newman gives directions for the cultivation of ...
... closed case , from its objection to continual moisture without evaporation ; but this can be obviated by securing good drainage , and by occasionally admitting the air into the case . Mr. Newman gives directions for the cultivation of ...
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abundant Algæ appearance ASPIDIUM ACULEATUM ASPIDIUM FILIX ASPLENIUM FILIX Babington barren fronds beautiful Bentham bipinnate botanists Botany branch Britain British ferns circular cloth common contains covered Crown 8vo cultivation delicate distinct dorsal Easy Account Edition England Fcap flowers fronds fructification Fully Illustrated Fungi growing Hardwicke's Hooker and Arnott Indusia indusium Ireland J. E. SOWERBY Lady Fern lanceolate Lankester LASTREA leaf leafy linear Linnæus little fern lobes London M. C. COOKE Maiden Hair Male Fern Manual margin Microscopic mid-rib moisture Moore native Newman oblong OPHIOGLOSSUM VULGATUM OSMUNDA ovate P. L. SIMMONDS pinnæ pinnate pinnatifid pinnules Plain and Easy plant Plate POLYPODIUM POLYPODIUM VULGARE Polypody Professor rhizome rock-work rocks roots Science SCOLOPENDRIUM Scotland segments SHIELD FERN six inches Smith soil sori species of fern specimens SPLEENWORT spore-cases stalk stem SYNONYMS TERNATE texture tion toothed TRICHOMANES tripinnate tufted twice-pinnate variety veins volume walls Woodcuts WOODSIA ILVENSIS
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Page 71 - And flapping and rapping and clapping and slapping, And curling and whirling and purling and twirling, And thumping and plumping and bumping and jumping, And dashing and flashing and splashing and clashing; And so never ending, but always descending, Sounds and motions for ever and ever are blending All at once and all o'er, with a mighty uproar, — And this way the water comes down at Lodore.
Page 77 - When the fern is as high as a spoon, You may sleep an hour at noon ; When the fern is as high as a ladle, You may sleep as long as you're able ; When the fern begins to look red, Then milk is good with brown bread.
Page 109 - SOWERBY'S ENGLISH BOTANY: Containing a Description and Life-size coloured Drawing of every British Plant. Edited and brought up to the Present Standard of Scientific Knowledge by T. BOSWELL (formerly SYME), LL.DFLS, &c. With Popular Descriptions of the Uses, History, and Traditions of each Plant, by Mrs. LANKESTEB, Author of " Wild Flowers Worth Notice," " The British Ferns,