This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V25", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
This beautiful Maiden-hair fern was sent by one of the collectors of Mr. Wm. Bull from the United States of Colombia. It is of moderate stature, and remarkable for the beautiful reddish tint assumed by its fronds when first developed, and continuing until they are fairly expanded. The fronds are bipinnate, on slender black stipes, arching over elegantly at the top, and dividing into from four to six linear pinnae. The red color of the young fronds adds very much to the ornamental aspect of the plant, which is moreover of an elegant mode of growth.
Adiantum tetraphyllum gracile.
 
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