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Show FERNS NEED SPECIAL CARE Too Frequent Watering of This Sensitive Sensi-tive Plant, for Instance, Is to Be Avoided. Is your fern suffering from summer complaint? '. If it is you have failed to learn the Dost important of all facts in the care of ferns, which Is that too frequent watering is not good for these delicate plants. The Boston variety, or short, curly kind, is generally considered difficult to keep in a thriving condition, condi-tion, yet one woman finds the task comparatively easy. This housewife, who takes a peculiar pecu-liar joy in all the beauty pertaining to aihome, declares the fern should be kept .in front of a window, where it receives the morning sun. It inust stand on a soft surface, sand in a jardiniere jar-diniere much larger than the fern pot being one of the best arrangements. This allows it to get plenty of air, an essential point in its care. Do not water the fern more often than every other day. Now and then It is best to wait three or four days, as a good dryout is most advisable. Take the fern into the laundry or basement and give it a good bath once or twice a month. Never let 'the temperature average more than 70 in the room where the fern is kept, a cooler atmosphere being be-ing better. Keep the plants free from dry or dead leaves. If possible, place the fern in a 'shady place in the yard for its summer outing, packing earth well around the. pot, . a treatment which increases its growth. |