{"id":5335,"date":"2020-02-14T11:12:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T19:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/?post_type=book&p=5335"},"modified":"2022-10-19T11:36:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T18:36:29","slug":"the-fern-world","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/the-fern-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fern World"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"One of my favorite fern authors is Francis George Heath (1843-1913).\u00a0 A prolific writer, he was keen on popularizing ferns with a well-honed eye and wit.\u00a0 He wrote at least one book about ferns for children and in all his books, he encourages fern tourism.\u00a0 His favorite destination was his home shire of Devon, located in the west of England with long, wild coasts on both the English and Bristol Channels.<\/p>\n

In \u201cThe Fern World\u201d (1877), he explains his reasoning behind this push for seeking ferns in situ.\u00a0 \u201cIt is too frequently the custom of our botanical writers to describe with painstaking minuteness only the structure and peculiarities of the organs of plants\u2014but tell us nothing of the life<\/em> of the plants.\u201d\u00a0 He was fond of pointing out contrasts, whether it be to distinguish between the rugged scenery of Devon and the \u201cpretty, and quiet, and pastoral\u201d look of Somerset directly to the east, or between a \u201cLady Fern\u201d (Athyrium filix-faemina<\/em>) and the \u201cMale Fern\u201d (Dryopteris filix-mas<\/em>) included in the same plate.\u00a0 Of the former he comments, \u201cPoets may fairly claim the right to describe the Lady Fern; for this beautiful plant is unquestionably the fairest and most delicately graceful of ferny forms, whether large or small.\u201d\u00a0 He describes the \u201cMale Fern\u201d as so designated \u201con account of its remarkably erect and robust habit of growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Excerpted from the Spring 2020 issue of the Arboretum Bulletin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite fern authors is Francis George Heath (1843-1913).\u00a0 A prolific writer, he was keen on popularizing ferns with a well-honed eye and wit.\u00a0 He wrote at least one book about ferns for children and in all his books, he encourages fern tourism.\u00a0 His favorite destination was his home shire of Devon, located in the west of England with long, wild coasts on both the English and Bristol Channels. In \u201cThe Fern World\u201d (1877), he explains his reasoning…<\/p>\n

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