Ferns.--Sow the seeds, or spores, when ripe. A convenient sized pot to
be filled with sandy peat, finishing with a few rough lumpy pieces to
form an uneven surface. The seeds to be shaken over the tops and sides
of these pieces of soil, by which there is more probability of some of
them vegetating than if they had been sown on a level surface where
the whole of the seed would be subjected to the same kind of treatment,
which might with ordinary care be either too wet or too dry. The pot
to be set in a saucer that contains a little water, which will feed the
whole mass with sufficient moisture without a drop being required on
the surface of the pot. The seedlings succeed best in a cool part of the
stove where evaporation can be most effectually prevented; but they do
not like to be continually kept close under a bell-glass.