The Origins of Farns in the Victorian Period

Collection of ferns became an almost exclusively female activity in the victorian period. One theory about that time is that if women were gay, they got to be gay with each other out in the woods collecting ferns. Farns became so popular, and there was such a a frenzy for ferns it started to take its toll on nature. The calarny farn which used to be all over ireland now you can only find it wild in certain parts of carry and certain parts of cark. It's one of the rarest farms in europe now,. And it used not be.