Spleenwort

Spleenwort (Asplenium) - The fine dark green color and free-growing character of most of the Spleenwort Ferns give them distinct value. The best soil for them is a well-drained mixture of peat, sand, and loam, in which the finer kinds of flowering shrubs, such as Kalmias and Andromedas, thrive. A. Adiantum nigrum (the Black Spleenwort) when wild, fringes copses or is found on hedge-banks, where it gets a little protection from the summer sun. The various smaller species of this genus belong more to the choice fernery than to the flower garden, unless when we are happy in having old walls near or around it, often so congenial a home for the smaller rock-ferns.

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