Article: Abduction fears in the police hunt for missing Mary, 88; Mystery: Mary Ferns has not been since last Tuesday.

Article: Hunt for Mary Ferns goes on national TV
Evening News - Scotland;  March 12, 2009 ;     400 words ...THE hunt for missing pensioner Mary Ferns is set to go national for the first time on the eve of her 89th birthday. The story of her mysterious disappearance has been lined ...

Article: FERN.(Obit)(Obituary)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  December 16, 2009 ;     474 words ... ... Jean Hawley Ferns December 14, 2009 Jean Hawley Ferns, 81, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Monday ... Jean is survived by her three sons, David (Mary) Ferns, Jeffrey (Janean) Ferns and James (Danielle) Ferns; her daughter, Nancy ...

Article: Eleanor Ferns
Concord Monitor;  October 24, 2006 ;     442 words ... ... James, of Kansas City, Mo., and Harriett Ferns of Concord; a sister, Margaret Kiteley ... was predeceased by her husband, Robert L. Ferns, who passed away in 2000; her daughter, Anne Mary Ferns, who passed away in 1994; and two sisters ...

Article: fern
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ... ... North American woodland ferns include the Christmas fern ( Polystichum acrostichoides ... of the mostly tropical fern epiphytes . Some ferns of other families are aquatic ... superstitions have arisen about ferns. The mythical "fern seeds," believed to be ...

Article: Fern fiddleheads: the succulent stalks of ...
Countryside & Small Stock Journal;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... main species of edible ferns in North America: ostrich fern Matteucia strutbiopteris ... fronds of all of these ferns should not be eaten. Ostrich fern When people say "fiddlehead ... Cinnamon and Interrupted ferns Cinnamon fern Osmundea cinnamomea is ...

Article: Ferns
Plant Sciences;      700+ words ... ... only parts of the fern plant visible above ... leaves. Some tropical ferns, called tree ferns ... cycle, but overall ferns reproduce very differently ... plants. The familiar fern plant, described ... is known about how ferns actually reproduce ... environments. Most fern spores ...

Article: Ferns have soothing garden presence.(Home & Garden)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  April 13, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... According to the American Fern Society, there are ... 000 named species of ferns in the world today ... green Leather Wood Fern (Dryopteris marginalis ... Pulmonaria majesty. After ferns are selected, turn ... Interrupted Fern or Royal Fern. All will tolerate ... steady moisture. Ferns ...