Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy; for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.--Wordsworth. In my last chapter I brought my Fern collection to an end; but I feel as if I had yet a last word to say--a small, very small sum to cast up of the amount of work, or rather play, that I have done in the Fern papers, in which I have so pleasantly wandered back through familiar scenes and amongst familiar friends. MY COLLECTION. 119 I have mentioned all the species of English Ferns, with the exception of the Trichomanes radicans, which, being an Irish Fern, hardly forms an exception. I have never found Radicans, have never grown it, and have never but once seen a really thriving plant of it. I have now in cultivation all the species of English Ferns, excepting the two Woodsias, the Asplenium germanicum, and the Hymenophyllums. They consist of--Adiantum capillus-Veneris, with the Dunraven variety, if variety it is. Allosorus crispus. Aspleniums trichomanes, viride, fontanum, rutamuraria, lanceolatum; Adiantum nigrum, with varieties; septentrionale, marinum, with Cornish variety. Athyrium Filix-fosmina, with varieties. Blechnum spicant, with varieties. Botrychium lunaria. I may also now add the Woodsia ilvensis to my list of Ferns under cultivation, a plant of this rare and delicate Fern having been...
