Drowning the Maidenhair?
Dear Aunt Daisy, In The Listener recently there was a letter from "Audrey of Auckland" re maidenhair ferns. She mentioned keeping them in a floating bowl full of water. I take it from this that she means to keep it in water all the time. Would this not tend to make the soil sour? I have no way of contacting the writer so would be pleased if you could reply through The Listener. I am very anxious to try the experiment myself. "Puzzled," Ponsonby. I hope "Audrey of Auckland" will see this letter and reply to it. I think the idea was only for keeping the potted fern moist and fresh during holidays while shut up. Several other letters on the same subject were sent in, and most advocated standing the fern in some inches of water in a tub in a darkened wash-house with the door left ajar for fresh air. Like you, I’ve always understood that ferns "drown" if stood perpetually in water.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 717, 10 April 1953, Page 23
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168Drowning the Maidenhair? New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 717, 10 April 1953, Page 23
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