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Title: Cassell's popular gardening
Identifier: cassellspopularg00fish_0 (find matches)
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Fish, David Taylor, 1824-1901; Fish, D. T. (David Taylor), 1824-1901
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: London ; New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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TEENS. 315 oblong-lanceolate bi- pinnate fronds four to six inches long, nar- rowed to both ends. The upper surface is slightly and the lower densely glandular hair)'. A native of the Rocky Mountains. Cultivation. — When grown in pots the Woodsias should be placed in thoroughly well-drained loamy soil mixed with small pieces of porous ston(>. They must be care- fully guarded against excessive moistarc, and should not be disturbed at the root. On rock-work they like a shady spot, and are best wedged between pieces of rock where their roots can run into the cool damp in- terstices, and at the same time be continu- ously free from any- thing approaching stagnant moisture. The Aspidiums, or Shield Ferns.— The Aspidiums do not exhibit so marked a range in the form and cutting of the fronds as many other genera, but there are among them many very de- sirable and handsome plants. As a rule, the)' are less suited for pot culture than for planting out in the rockery, either of the in-door or out-door fernery. As the genus is here understood, Cyclodium, Cyrto- mium, and Polysti- chum, to which latter section the British re- pref?entatives of the
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CySTOPTERIS FRAGILIS. Cystopteeis montanum.

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