This section is from the book "The Gardener V2", by William Thomson. Also available from Amazon: The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener.
An elegant fern-like plant of free growth; thrives well in an intermediate house. When in too great heat it is apt to run up and get too high for table: when about 1G inches high, and furnished to the pots with its fine-cut foliage of deep green, it is very effective at night.
There are many more of recent introduction which I have no doubt are as good as those mentioned; but these we can speak of, having them all in use here.
There are a few Ferns and other things useful for table which I may at some future day send a few notes on.
A. H. T.
 
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