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  TREE-FERN - LoveToKnow Article on TREE-FERN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In old and well-grown specimens of some of the familiar ferns of temperate climates the wide-spreading crown of fronds may be observed to rise at a distance often of a good many inches above the ground, and from a stem of considerable thickness.
The best-known tree frog is the little Hyla arborea of continental Europe, rainette of the French, Lauhfrosch of the Germans, often kept in glass cylinders provided with a ladder, which the frog is supposed to ascend or descend in prevision of the weather.
The family Hylidae, of which the European tree frog is the type, is closely related to the Bufonidae or true roads, being distinguished from them by the presence of teeth in the upper jaw and by the clawlike shape of the terminal phalanx of the digits.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TR/TREE_FERN.htm   (1102 words)

  
 Tasmanian Tree Fern
Tasmanian Tree Fern (Dicksonia antarctica) is an evergreen tree fern native to parts of Australia, namely New South Wales, Tasmania, and Victoria.
The "trunk" of this fern is merely the decaying remains of earlier growth of the plant and forms a medium through which the roots grow.
The Tasmanian Tree Fern can be used as a food source, with the pith of the plant being eaten either cooked or raw.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Tasmanian_Tree_Fern   (658 words)

  
 Fern Tree, Tasmania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The name Fern Tree is adapted from the plant Dicksonia Antarctica which has the common name of tree fern and grows abundantly in this area.
Fern Tree was originally a postal station on the road to the Huon Valley.
Settled from the mid 19th century, Fern Tree and its environs have always been a major recreational area for Hobart residents and a delightful place for those who live here.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fern_Tree,_Tasmania   (151 words)

  
 Tree Fern Culture Factsheet - Gardening Australia - ABC
Tree ferns are slow growing and take many years to reach a large size.
The ferns reproduce by producing spores, these are housed in brown coloured sporangia on the backs of the fronds.
When buying a tree fern, ensure that it comes with a certificate or ask for it to be spore propagated as it is illegal to remove ferns from the bush in most places.
www.abc.net.au /gardening/stories/s785949.htm   (648 words)

  
 printarticle.
Fern trees from Tasmania will now be issued with export permits and a Tasmanian tag.
For the next five years or more, the taking of fern trees will occur only as "salvage harvesting" from forests which are to be clear-felled and converted for agriculture or roads.
Tasmania Green MP Peg Putt fears this will be a strong incentive for the increased logging of old-growth forest.
www.theage.com.au /cgi-bin/common/printArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/03/09/1015365751787.html   (662 words)

  
 Fern Tree History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Fern Tree Inn was built and opened by John Hall on Huon Road.
Fern Tree's Church of St Raphael was built by Charles and William Willham.
Fern Tree was popular as a weekend retreat for Hobart people, with several boarding houses operating and private huts built.
www.tased.edu.au /tasonline/ferntree/history.htm   (896 words)

  
 home.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Fern Tree is the mountain hill station for Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania, Australia's island state.
Many walking tracks on Mount Wellington begin at Fern Tree and the Pipeline track which passes through Fern Tree continues on to Hobart.
If you are visiting Tasmania or live in Hobart, why not visit Fern Tree and enjoy the many delights which this entrancing place has to offer.
www.tased.edu.au /tasonline/ferntree/about.htm   (196 words)

  
 Fernmania Dicksonia Antarctica Tree Fern Suppliers
Owned and operated in Tasmania Australia by Bert and Ruth Van den Berg, Fernmania is a family business that has been in operation for 15 years.
We are fully licensed by the Tasmanian Government to harvest wild tree ferns in areas where they would otherwise be destroyed by planned forest operations and since March 1st 2002 Government authorities only allow harvesters to harvest in areas that are being converted to plantation forestry.
Tree ferns are exported from Australia to the USA, Holland, France, England, Italy, Germany, South Korea and Taiwan.
www.fernmania.com   (215 words)

  
 Lapoinya Lodge bed and breakfast inn - Fern Tree, Tasmania
Lapoinya Lodge bed and breakfast inn - Fern Tree, Tasmania
Lapoinya Lodge B&B accommodation is set in two acres of showcase gardens on the slopes of Mount Wellington.
After a peaceful nights rest a hearty mountain breakfast awaits you overlooking the city and mountain vistas.
www.lanierbb.com /inns/wwbb13130.html   (96 words)

  
 Tasmania 2003 part 1
Tasmania was, like most of Australia in the middle of a severe drought and we were surprised at the lack of 'green' in the landscape.
We took the Summerleas Road to Fern Tree and managed to get lost a couple of times but this was to our advantage as we came across Strong-billed Honeyeater and Green Rosellas.
At Fern Tree we searched unsuccessfully for Scrubtit but met some visiting british birdos and then received a call on the mobile informing us that due to poor weather our trip to the south-west had been cancelled.
www.aviceda.org /tas/tas2003a.htm   (1453 words)

  
 EVENTS TASMANIA - TASMANIAN VISITORS EVENT from Discover Tasmania
Tree laden Log Trucks are an obvious menace to the safety of users of Tasmanian roadways.
My family and I moved to Tasmania in 1989 because real estate was cheap and the place appeared to have lots of potential.
We soon learned that the Tasmanian Government's tourism department marketed Tasmania for the main players only and the little guy did not get a share of that pie unless some serious sucking up was performed.
www.discover-tasmania.com /events   (3963 words)

  
 Dicksonia antarctica
Trees and shrubs that grow well in Cornwall and other mild areas of Britain.
My Tasmanian Tree Fern has been growing great in a large pot for the past year on a shaded porch in damp Portland, Oregon.
I have had a Tasmanian Tree Fern growing quite wonderfully in a large pot under a shaded porch porch area for a year now.
www.ibiblio.org /pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Dicksonia+antarctica   (1136 words)

  
 Fern Tree, Hobart & Southern, Tasmania, TAS Unspecified For Sale - Cracker, Australia's free classified community
Overlooking the Derwent from the foothills of Mt Wellington, the original rustic farmhouse charm is enhanced by an architectural extension now housing 3 double bedrooms plus a study, 2 bathrooms, open plan living, fo...
FERN TREE 989 Huon Road Fern Tree, Tasmania (TAS)
FERN TREE $1,200,000 636 Summerleas Road Fern Tree, Tasmania (TAS)
realestate.cracker.com.au /real-estate/buy/tas/tasmania/hobart+--+southern/fern+tree/unit/63.html   (463 words)

  
 Fern Tree Accommodation, TAS Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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www.ferntree.vacancy4u.com.au   (583 words)

  
 Tasmania, TAS Real Estate For Sale $600,000 - $800,000 - Cracker, Australia's free classified community
There are 157 results matching homes for sale located in Tasmania, TAS from $600,000 to $800,000.
Located less than 5 minutes from one of Tasmanias most recognised country towns, having sealed road frontage,and extremely private with the driveway wending its way from an inconspicuous gatew...
Click here to see the rest of the homes for sale located in Tasmania, TAS from $600,000 to $800,000 or refine your search using our Quick Search box (top right).
realestate.cracker.com.au /real-estate/buy/tas/tasmania/600000-800000/71.html   (533 words)

  
 RCI.com City Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Set in the foothills of Mount Wellington, Fern Tree offers superb views over the D'Entrecasteaux Channel.
Fern Tree was devastated during the 1967 bush fires yet the timber church survived.
The twisting road from Longley to Hobart is a test for drivers and vehicles during both the cycling Tour of Tasmania and Targa.
www.rci.com /detail.html?detailID=246600   (123 words)

  
 6/6/2005 -- Gunns activist gets big award
She was honoured for her environmental activism and forest conservation work in WA and Tasmania.
Ms Morris, of Fern Tree, is one of 20 defendants in the $6.3m lawsuit brought against environmentalists by timber company Gunns Ltd.
She moved to Tasmania in 2001 and her investigations into forest practices culminated in the documentary The Trees that Ate Tasmania.
forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=42545   (655 words)

  
 TASMANIA - WELD HILL - TASMANIAN NORTH EAST ICON
A GIANT TREE AT The little E.nitens paper (pulpwood) pot plants on the day they where planted.
Some of the logs and ash heaps were still smoking, some plants never survived the first hour due to being boiled from below...
In Tasmania we have it all, plus more...
www.discover-tasmania.com /weld-hill/index.html   (228 words)

  
 Tasmania Endemics 1996
The island of Tasmania lies off the south coast of Australia, and is a destination well worth the visit of anyone visiting Australia.
This species is not an endemic: although it breeds only in Tasmania, it migrates to the mainland during the winter and disperses widely around the south-east.
In Tasmania the Black Currawong is found in wet forests, the Grey in drier forests.
www.camacdonald.com /birding/tripreports/Tasmania96.html   (1642 words)

  
 My genealogy website
Richard HARDMAN was transported as a convict to Tasmania via Sydney on the "Sir William Bensley" in 1817.
Francis McIVOR or IVOR was a child convict on the "Lord Lyndoch (II)" to Tasmania in 1836.
I do not know how he got to Tasmania but I suspect that he was the convict John LEVETT who was born in Lewes, Sussex, England in 1821.
www.comp.utas.edu.au /users/rsmith/smith.html   (1183 words)

  
 Inductee Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He emigrated to Australia in 1950 with his mother Adele, and they settled in Fern Tree, Tasmania.
An extraordinary aspect about his work was that many of his photographs aided in the campaign that saved the Franklin River in Tasmania from being dammed.
We go to the wilds to reaffirm our place in the natural scheme of things, to be rejuvenated by contact with elemental forces and to be reminded that the civilized baggage with which we complicate our lives is perhaps not so important to our happiness as the advertising man would claim.
www.iphf.org /inductees/PDombrovskis.htm   (301 words)

  
 Mountain Lodge B and B Hobart - Hobart - Discover Tasmania
Mountain Lodge Bed and Breakfast is situated on the foothills of Mt. Wellington, overlooking Hobart and the DEntrecasteaux Channel, only minutes from Hobart, and many of the local attractions.
The English-style, semi-formal garden is surrounded by dry stone walls, with approximately 300 rhododendrons and azaleas, spring colour abounds with bulbs, daffodils, bluebells and tulips.
Mature European trees and wide lawns make the garden a place to sit and relax, and the panorama is breathtaking.
www.discovertasmania.com.au /home/product.cfm?productid=9000383&from=All%20Tasmanian%20Accommodation   (204 words)

  
 Dicksonia antarctica (Tasmanian Tree Fern) - USA site.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Dicksonia antarctica the "Soft Tree Fern" from South East Austrailia & Tasmania.
Avoid planting your tree fern where it would be exposed to strong winds as this causes the fronds to scorch.
Larger sizes of Tree Ferns available please email for prices.
www.mailorderplants4me.com /usa/dicksonia_antarctica1.html   (141 words)

  
 Walkabout - Ferntree Gully, Upper
The combination of rainfall and rich volcanic soils renders the soil fertile and the ranges are cloaked in vast tracts of forests and fern gullies, as well as some distinguished and renowned gardens.
Potatoes, flowers, bulbs and berry fruits are produced for commercial purposes in the area.
From One tree Hill Picnic Ground you can take either the Ferntree Gully Track south to the Ferntree Gully Picnic Ground, or the One Tree Hill Track (3.2 km return).
www.walkabout.com.au /locations/VICFerntreeGullyUpper.shtml   (1114 words)

  
 Fern Tree, Hobart & Southern, Tasmania, TAS Unspecifieds @ domain.com.au   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Fern Tree, Hobart & Southern, Tasmania, TAS Unspecifieds @ domain.com.au
Fern Tree, Hobart & Southern, Tasmania, TAS Unspecifieds
There are currently few properties on domain.com.au that match the criteria unspecified real estate located in Fern Tree, Hobart & Southern, Tasmania, TAS.
203.26.51.140 /real-estate/tas/tasmania/hobart+--+southern/fern+tree/rural/62.html   (193 words)

  
 Placenames of Tasmania -1
In this article and the ones that follow, I'll be looking at some of these, more or less at random.
Then there's Berriedale and Acacia Hills (acacia is the botanical name of the familiar wattle tree).
The son who gave me my white hairs [not any more he is father to three sons] lives at the...
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/tasmania_apple_isle/89295   (514 words)

  
 Fern-leaf Acacia, the tree with the perfect dimentions
They are good for areas where shade is needed but there is not a lot of space.
This plant is reminiscent of fern of the desert (Lysiloma thornberi) but much hardier to the cold.
Pruning these plants into tree is a constant effort because of suckering habit, however worth the trouble as the make wonderful small trees.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/arid_climate_plants/15340   (276 words)

  
 Pictures Catalogue - Boileau, F. (Francis) Sir, 1830-1900. Fern Tree Bower [Hobart, Tasmania] [picture] / - ...
Fern Tree Bower [Hobart, Tasmania] [picture] / - fullindex.htm test
Fern Tree Bower [Hobart, Tasmania] [picture] / Francis George Manningham Boileau.
Photograph album of the Boileau family's voyage from England to Australia in 1894-1895, including ports of call to Gibralta, Colombo, Adelaide, Melbourne, Tasmania, Sydney and New Zealand.
nla.gov.au /nla.pic-an3366506-52   (152 words)

  
 Tasmania Online: Home > Community Search > Municipality   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lenah Valley is a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania.
Tasmania's premier yacht club conducting local events on River Derwent, national and international titles, as well as finishing the blue water classic Sydney to...
Shelter Tasmania is an independent community organisation committed to the principle of accessible, affordable, appropriate and secure housing for every person and...
www.tas.gov.au /tasmaniaonline/Search/CommunitySearch.asp?Municipality=Hobart   (4404 words)

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