AT A GLANCE
Apr 30, 2020
1 minute
Fern collecting became popular in Britain from the late 1830s, after doctor and amateur horticulturist Nathanielby Henry Bradbury and Thomas Moore, one of the curators of Chelsea Physic Garden, which was published in 1855. The fashion for ferns lasted decades but faded, as did quite a few things, when the First World War broke out in 1914.
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