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Glory fern   /glˈɔri fərn/   Listen
Glory fern

noun
1.
Named for a country house in Barbados where it was discovered.  Synonyms: Adiantum tenerum farleyense, Barbados maidenhair, Farley maidenhair, Farley maidenhair fern.





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"Glory fern" Quotes from Famous Books



... imbricatum. As its name suggests, it looks very much like the Farley fern, but it is suitable for house culture. It is a very satisfactory fern. And just recently there is another from England called the Glory fern (Glory of Moordrecht). I have not seen it, but certainly from photographs and what the horticultural journals have said of it, it will make a very fine fern for ...
— Gardening Indoors and Under Glass • F. F. Rockwell


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