noun
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a place where ferns are grown
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a collection of ferns grown in such a place
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Origin of fernery
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A case of stuffed birds, a few large pots of tropical plants, and a fernery are in keeping with the dining-room appointments.
From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous
"We have a little fernery at home," explained Ruth.
From The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields by Edward Stratemeyer
The sound of the merriment penetrated to the fernery, and brought a smile of sympathy to Peggy’s lips.
From Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor by F.E. Mills Young
The fernery was flanked by two other handwoven baskets of sweet-grass.
From Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
Mildred ceased to start with surprise at finding him in the early morning turning over the books in her brother's study, or helping Polly and Chriss in their new fernery.
From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Rosa Nouchette Carey
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
Nothing makes such good ferneries, you get so many crannies and corners.
From We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
Here and there, as I plodded farther and higher, I came to small garden-patches and ferneries just where one would naturally decide that no plant-creature could possibly live.
From My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
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 Ambrose Bierce
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
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