Ferneries

They can be grown in small pots, or be almost packed together in boxes or seed-pans; and when near perfection they may be shaken out and have the roots washed for glasses, ferneries, and small aquaria; or they can be replanted close together in sand, and covered with green moss. ❋ Sutton And Sons (N/A)

-- This plant is of the simplest culture and is well adapted for pots, ferneries, or rock-work. ❋ Alfred Pink (N/A)

There was the story of her garden full of rare flowers, and her ferneries of rare ferns, and her aviary of rare birds. ❋ Lilian Turner (N/A)

One of the most chastely beautiful of our native wild flowers -- so lovely that many shady nooks in English rock-gardens and ferneries contain imported clumps of the vigorous plant -- is the Large-flowered Wake-Robin, or White Wood Lily (_T. grandiflorum_). ❋ Neltje Blanchan (1891)

I had no desire to continue in this depression, as I should in going north, for I should find nothing but lakes, marshes and ferneries, infested with the same primitive and monstrous forms of life. ❋ Ambrose Bierce (1878)

I was haunted by the beauty of the landscape all about, of the natural ferneries then disappearing, and of the domed forest-trees on the slopes, and was fortunate in meeting a gentleman intent on preserving in art the beauties of his country. ❋ Joshua Slocum (1877)

I had returned to the old home during a summer vacation of the State University, and, having made a beginning in botany, I was, of course, full of enthusiasm and ran eagerly to my beloved pogonia, calopogon, and cypripedium gardens, osmunda ferneries, and the lake lilies and pitcher-plants. ❋ John Muir (1876)

Gothic chansons de geste, the rough and ponderous mass becomes, as if by passing for a moment into happier conditions, or through a more gracious stratum of air, graceful and refined, like the carved ferneries on the granite church at Folgoat, or the lines which describe the fair priestly hands of Archbishop Turpin, in the song of Roland; although below both alike there is a fund of mere Gothic strength, or heaviness. ❋ Walter Pater (1866)

I made for the Bois de Boulogne, there to find, instead of the old rabbit-and-roebuck-haunted thickets and ferneries and impenetrable growth, a huge artificial lake, with row-boats and skiffs, and a rockery that would have held its own in Rosherville gardens. ❋ George Du Maurier (1865)

I would have rooms for them here, that they should feel the _own-ness_ of; flowers to tend; ferneries in the windows; they could make them from these beautiful woods, and send them away to the cities; that would be a business at the very first! ❋ Unknown (1865)

Nothing makes such good ferneries, you get so many crannies and corners. ❋ Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (1863)

In the garden are glass houses, in which oranges, vines, pines, and the most beautiful orchids grow, with pineries, and ferneries, and formerly there were aviaries, and a menagerie of curious animals, and in the cottage are preserved a number of rare things. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)