Frances, take Mrs. Kennedy to the fern walk and show her the famous 'Newbury Bubble' among the rocks.
Against the slopes the tinted fern patches show bronze, russet, and pansy brown.
But both love deep woods, and, blazing suddenly above a fern bed, the rich flowers startle, like a butterfly of the Andes adrift in Canadian forests.
There is only a hint of breeze, it might almost be the whisper of uncurling fern fronds, but soft as it is, it stirs the branches here and there, and I know that it is rocking hundreds of tiny cradles in the forest.
The noble Tree-fern before us (Alsophila aculeata) has this instant been called into being by the creating voice of God.
The argument which is based upon the leaf-scales of the Fernor the Palm would essentially apply to either of these plants when it first issues from the ground.
It all looked foreign enough yet, among those palm-fern pillars, and on the Fijian mat with its border made of red worsted ends and little white feathers.
Fern trees springing up to the dimensions of trees indeed, with the very fern foliage she was accustomed to in low herbaceous growth at home; only magnified superbly.
Oh, the agony, Oh, life's bitter cost Since that useless little fern was lost!
Here is a rosy daisy for some merry little damsel; there is a scarlet posy for a soldier; this delicate azalea and fern for some lovely creature just out; and there is a bunch of sober pansies for a spinster, if spinsters go to 'Germans.
She added a frail fern or two, and did give just the graceful touch here and there which would speak to the mother's gore heart of the tender thought some one had taken for her dead darling.
On the other hand, I was surprised to see a beautiful fern (a Trichomanes, very like the Irish one) which is not found at Dorjiling.
Nearly thirty ferns may be gathered on this excursion, including many of great beauty and rarity, but the tree-fern does not ascend so high.
This fern is eaten abundantly by the New Zealanders: its distribution is most remarkable, being found very rarely indeed in Europe, and in Norway only.
The racks were elegantly fringed with a fern I had not hitherto seen, Polypodium proliferum, which is the only species the Soane valley presents at this season.
This fern proved to be a very curious and interesting genus, which is only known to occur elsewhere at Hong-Kong in China, and has been called Bowringia, after the eminent Dr.
Leather binding with fernmotive done in the Duesseldorf Technical School.
The Royal Fern (Osmunda) was traditionally supposed to bear seed upon St. John's Eve, though ferns were generally believed at that time to have no organs of fructification.
Neither was it a trifling thing, let whoso will say the contrary, to behold the ducks and geese marching forth in handsome order from their beds of fern and straw.
And then to fall asleep and dream that the fern was all asparagus.
You have been very faithful, John,' she murmured to the fern and moss; 'I suppose I must reward you.
But suddenly a robin sang (as they will do after dark, towards spring) in the brown fern and ivy behind me.
The shadows of rocks fell far and deep, and the brown dead fern was fluttering, and brambles with their sere leaves hanging, swayed their tatters to and fro, with a red look on them.
The chamber was of unhewn rock, round, as near as might be, eighteen or twenty feet across, and gay with rich variety of fern and moss and lichen.
Fern Paradise (The): A Plea for the Culture of Ferns.
Last week, before climbing a small bare-peaked mountain, I turned aside to explore a path which led through a field of scattered balsam firs, with lady-fern growing thick about their feet.
The majority of the illustrations are from original photographs; in respect to this feature, it can be confidently asserted that no finer examples of fern photography have ever been produced.
Dew falls all winter, but it is in star and fern shapes of frost; now every morning and evening the thick grass is pearled again with a million nourishing drops.
The long ridges accentuate themselves suddenly into sharp slopes and steep cup-shaped valleys, covered with sweet-fern and juniper.
The stooping bough above me, The wandering bee to love me, The fern and moss to creep across, And the Elm-tree for our King!
The ground is grey beneath--the trees are grey with clinging lichens--the very heather and fern that spring beneath them have a character of the past.
Or, later on in the season, the tall and stately foxgloves blooming red amidst the greenery of a fern bank?
Green fern has the same effect on pears packed for carriage as nettles on stone fruit; while apples should be packed in wheat, or better still in rye straw.
Uniform with "The Fern World" and "Our Woodland Trees.
It'll be nice and cool then, and we can go ever so far over the hill, above Fern Kloof.
In a moment she would snarl: "I am dead tired of seeing Mrs. Merriman's sprawly old fern and the Bosworth palm.
That doesn't mean anything, unless you happen to know that Mrs. Merriman has the prettiest Boston fern in town, and that no bow-window is properly decorated at any wedding without that fern.
Again we print this item: "Mrs. Merriman is getting ready to lend her fern to the Nortons, June 15.
After luncheon, the gentlemen considered themselves entitled to rest, lying lazily back among the fern and smoking, whilst we ladies sat a little apart and chatted: I was busy learning to knit.
Wildeve bade her a tender farewell, and plunged across the fern and furze, Eustacia slowly walking on.
The scene seemed to belong to the ancient world of the carboniferous period, when the forms of plants were few, and of the fern kind; when there was neither bud nor blossom, nothing but a monotonous extent of leafage, amid which no bird sang.
The brakes of furze and fern terminated abruptly round the margin, and the grass was unbroken.
Within was a paddock in an uncultivated state, though bearing evidence of having once been tilled; but the heath and fern had insidiously crept in, and were reasserting their old supremacy.
Thomasin turned and rolled aside the fern from another nook, where more mellow fruit greeted her with its ripe smell.
Her lips were quivering, and tears so crowded themselves into her eyes that she could hardly distinguish apples from fern as she continued industriously searching to hide her weakness.
After untold centuries, the wild rose and the hay-scented ferncluster round the boulder, and dandelions star the grass.
Spagnum grew in places along the trail, and the fern moss was in evidence on the rocks.
