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Definition of Fernery
1. n. A place for rearing ferns.
Definition of Fernery
1. Noun. A specialized garden for the cultivation and display of ferns. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fernery
1. a place in which ferns are grown [n -ERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fernery
Literary usage of Fernery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1903)
"AN INDOOR fernery. ONE of the pleasures connected with the ferns is that we may
... My own fernery is a rather rough affair, twenty-two by seventeen inches, ..."
2. The Gentleman's House: Or, How to Plan English Residences, from the by Robert Kerr (1865)
"fernery and Rock- Garden. THERE are several modes in common use for the formation
of the FLOWER-GARDEN. One is to cut out a number of LAWN-BEDS along the ..."
3. Indoor Gardening by Eben Eugene Rexford (1910)
"XXXVI THE PARLOR fernery ERNS, as we all know, are more difficult to grow than
many other plants, but this does not prevent the lover of fine plants from ..."
4. The Young Lady's Book: A Manual of Amusements, Exercises, Studies, and Pursuits by Matilda Anne Planche Mackarness (1888)
"It adds greatly to the interest of a fernery to collect them yourself. The following
list was collected by the writer ..."
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