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Making a Rock Garden (9)
The Fern Lover's Companion (34)
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1. Classification of Ferns
In this manual our native ferns are grouped scientifically under five distinct families.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/classification.php
2. Cliff Brakes (Pellàea)
Sporangia borne on the upper part of the free veins inside the margins, in dot-like masses, but may run together, as in the continuous fruiting line of the bracken.
http://ww.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/cliff.php
3. Common Grape Fern
Rootstock short, its base including the buds of succeeding years. Fronds two to twelve inches or more high.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/commongrape.php
4. Contents
The full list of contents.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/rockgardens/contents.php
5. Contents
The full list of contents.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/contents.php
6. Curly Grass Family (Schizæàceæ)
Small, slender ferns with linear or thready leaves, the sterile, one to two inches high and tortuous or 'curled like corkscrews' fertile fronds longer, three to five inches, and bearing at the top about five pairs of minute, fruited pinnæ.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/curly.php
7. Cyperus (Galingale, Umbrella Sedge)
Cyperus is an evergreen perennial that can be grown as a marginal or in the bog garden. The flower spikelets are green to reddish-brown in colour.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/cyperus.php
8. Fern Literature
AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL. 1910. The American Fern Society. (Annual subscription, $1.25.)
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/literature.php
9. Glossary
ACÙMINATE. Gradually tapering to a point.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/glossary.php
10. Grape Ferns (Botrýchium)
Rootstock very short, erect with clustered fleshy roots; the base of the sheathed stalk containing the bud for the next year's frond.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/grape.php
11. Hart's Tongue and Walking Leaf
Sori linear, a row on either side of the midvein, and at right angles to it, the indusium appearing to be double.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/hartstongue.php
12. Hayscented Fern. Boulder Fern
Fronds one to three feet high, minutely glandular and hairy, ovate-lanceolate, pale green, very thin and mostly bipinnate.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/boulder.php
13. Introduction
Thoreau tells us, 'Nature made a fern for pure leaves.' Fern leaves are in the highest order of cryptogams.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/introduction.php
14. Key To The Wood Ferns
The ferns of this group, not counting the small fragrant fern, prefer the woods or at least shady places.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/wood.php
15. Key to Genera
This key, in illustrating each genus, follows the method of Clute in 'Our Ferns in Their Haunts,' but substitutes other and larger specimens.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/keytogenera.php
16. Little Grape Fern. Botrychium símplex
Fronds two to four inches high, very variable. Sterile segment short-petioled, usually near the middle, simple and roundish or pinnately three to seven lobed.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/littlegrape.php
17. Making a Rock Garden
by H. S. Adams
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/rockgardens/
18. Noted Fern Authors
The works of these authors are listed under 'Fern Literature' in the following pages.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/authors.php
19. Planting The Garden
There are two ways of planting a rock garden. One is to do all the crevice planting along with the building, and the other, of course, is to defer everything until the rocks are in place and the soil thoroughly settled.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/rockgardens/planting.php
20. Plants For A Rock Garden
So many plants are suitable for a rock garden that the range of choice is bewildering. In this, as in the laying out of the garden, advisability takes precedence over pure personal desire,
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/rockgardens/plants.php
21. Preface
A lover of nature feels the fascination of the ferns though he may know little of their names and habits.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/preface.php
22. The Beech Ferns
The beech ferns are often classed with the polypodies, because, like them, they have no indusium; but in other ways they are more akin to the wood ferns.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/beech.php
23. The Bladder Ferns (Cystópteris)
The bladder ferns are a dainty, rock-loving family partial to a limestone soil.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/bladder.php
24. The Bracken Group
Sporangia near or on the margin of the segments, the reflexed portions of which serve as indusia.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/bracken.php
25. The Choice Of A Site
The best site for a rock garden is where it ought to be. That is a sad truth, for it eliminates some homes from the game; but useless waste of time will be saved if this is recognized at the outset.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/rockgardens/site.php
26. The Cloak Fern (Notholàena)
Small ferns with fruit-dots borne beneath the revolute margin of the pinnules, at first roundish, but soon confluent into a narrow band without indusium.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/cloak.php
27. The Fern Family Proper or Real Ferns
Green, leafy plants whose spores are borne in spore-cases (sporangia), which are collected in dots or clusters (fruit-dots or sori) on the back of the frond or form lines along the edge of its divisions.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/polypodies.php
28. The Fern Lover's Companion
A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by George Henry Tilton, A.M.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/
29. The Filmy Fern Family (Hymenophyllàceæ)
The filmy ferns are small, delicate plants with membranaceous, finely dissected fronds from slender, creeping rootstocks. Sporangia sessile on a bristle-like receptacle.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/filmy.php
30. The Flowering Fern Family (OSMUNDÀCEAE)
This family is represented in North America by three species, all of which belong to the single genus.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/flowering.php
31. The Large Spleenworts (Athýrium)
The following species, which are often two to three feet high and grow in rich soil, are quite different in appearance and habits from the small rock spleenworts just described.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/spleenwortlarge.php
32. The Lip Ferns (Cheilánthes)
Mostly small southern ferns growing on rocks, pubescent or tomentose with much divided leaves.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/lip.php
33. The Rock Garden
In Europe, particularly in England, the rock garden is an established institution with a distinct following. The English works on the subject alone form a considerable bibliography.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/rockgardens/rockgarden.php
34. The Sensitive And Ostrich Ferns
It is a question whether the sensitive and ostrich fern should be included in the same genus. They are similar in many respects, but not in all.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/sensitive.php
35. The Shield Ferns
These have been grouped with the wood ferns, but are now usually placed under the genus Polýstichum, which has the sori round and covered with a circular indusium fixed to the frond by its depressed center.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/shield.php
36. The Spleenworts
Small, evergreen ferns. Fruit-dots oblong or linear, oblique, separate when young.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/spleenwort.php
37. The Wall Garden
A wall garden is a perpendicular rock garden. But whereas a rock garden is of all things irregular, a wall garden has regularity.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/rockgardens/wallgarden.php
38. The Woodsias
Small, tufted, pinnately divided ferns. Fruit-dots borne on the back of simply forked, free veins.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/woodsias.php
39. The Work Of Construction
Spring is the best time to make a rock garden. When the important matter of the proper site has been put in the past, a definite scheme must be planned.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/rockgardens/construction.php
40. Time List for Fruiting of Ferns
Compiled from Dodge's 'Ferns and Fern Allies of New England'
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/timelist.php
41. Water And Bog Gardens
Neither the water nor the bog garden is dependent on rocks. Either or both, however, may just as well be an adjunct of the rock garden.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/rockgardens/waterandbog.php
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