Brake

Brake (Pteris) - The Bracken Fern (P. aquilina), the only thoroughly hardy species of this genus, is generally so common as not to need cultivation. In introducing it where it is scarce, to transplant it successfully large sods containing the strong creeping roots must be dug up, and planted in light soil; if peaty, so much the better. In very mild localities such species as P. cretica and the elegant P. scaberula, from New Zealand, sometimes thrive in sheltered nooks.