Ferns to Know and GrowKnown through several editions simply as "the fern bible," this classic covers identification, propagation, cultivation, and landscape uses of ferns. The heart of the book is a selection of 132 hardy and tender species suitable for gardens in various climates or in the greenhouse. |
Contents
Getting Acquainted with Ferns | 1 |
Ferns Then and Now | 5 |
The Plant and Its Components | 9 |
Copyright | |
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2-pinnate Adiantum Alternate sunlight apical appear areas Asplenium Athyrium Athyrium filix-femina basal pinnae Bladder-fern blade Botrychium brown scales bulblets Christmas Fern Cliff-brake color covered Crested crevices crosiers cultivars CULTURE damp dark green Davallia Davallia fejeensis Deciduous deep green dehiscence dense Dryopteris early edge elongate Enlarged sketch Evergreen exindusiate Fern Leaf ferns grow fertile leaf fertile pinnae genus Grape-fern Holly-fern humus inches long inches wide indusia indusium kidney-shaped Lady Ferns lanceolate Leaf silhouette leathery leaves light green limestone Linear lobes lower Maidenhair maturity medium green midrib moist moisture Nephrolepis exaltata Open shade Osmunda Ostrich Fern ovate Pellaea Pellaea rotundifolia petiole pinna showing pinnae pinnatifid pinnule Polypodium Polypody Polystichum Pteris cretica rachis RANGE reflexed margin rhizome rock garden Round scale-covered segments Shield-fern soil sori sorus spaced species Spleenwort sporangia sporangium spores sporophyte spreading sterile leaf Sterile pinna Stipe Strongly dimorphic tapering Thelypteris underside upper veins winter sunlight woodland Woodsia yellow-green