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Definition of Soft shield fern
1. Noun. European shield fern cultivated in many varieties.
Generic synonyms: Buckler Fern, Shield Fern
Group relationships: Genus Polystichum, Polystichum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soft Shield Fern
Literary usage of Soft shield fern
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawns and Gardens: How to Plant and Beautify the Home Lot, the Pleasure by Nils Jönsson-Rose (1897)
"... pinnate leaves several feet long including the stalk; pinna} deeply cut or
pinnatifid. Very hardy; fine for a rockery. The soft shield-fern (A. ..."
2. The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches by William Robinson, Esther Baldwin York (1903)
"... or soft shield fern, w have truncatum forme, with square-topped fronds but,
curiously enough, considering the wonderfu tendency of this species to vary, ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists (1869)
"The soft Shield Fern is European, and of "this very sportive fern there are no
fewer than sixty varieties, the handsomest of all is undoubtedly the A. ..."
4. The Book of Fern Culture by Alfred Hemsley (1908)
"Of these, P. angulare (the Soft-shield Fern) is the most useful. Of this Fern
there are numerous varieties, and in their natural habitats great variation is ..."
5. American Gardening (1895)
"... (the Soft Shield fern) is also a very good house fern, the fronds of which
are about eighteen inches to two feet long, finely cut, and the stems and ..."
6. The English Illustrated Magazine (1908)
"... Wallflowers, etc. and successively downwards such ferns as Broad Buckler, the
Spring Buckler or Boss Fern, the common Polypody, the soft shield fern, ..."
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