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The New York botanist Frances Theodora Parsons wrote an influential 1899 study, “How to Know the Ferns,” and public and private greenhouse ferneries were established in Philadelphia, Detroit and Chicago, among other cities.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2012

The interior of Whitestone Hall was simply dazzling in its rich rose bloom, its lights, its fountains, and rippling music from adjoining ferneries.

From Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love by Libbey, Laura Jean

Nothing makes such good ferneries, you get so many crannies and corners.

From We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

The yield, which is rough, unequal and woody in texture, is called virgin cork, and is useful only as a tanning substance, or for forming rustic work in ferneries, conservatories, &c.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various

I had no desire to continue in this depression, as I should in going north, for I should find nothing but lakes, marshes and ferneries, infested with the same primitive and monstrous forms of life.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 by Bierce, Ambrose