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upon, so as to create an object worthy and in keeping with the 

 position it occupies. 



Amongst our hardy British ferns, there are many that occupy the 

 first rank in the order of beauty, while in others the formation and 

 characters are peculiar and pleasing, so that any one possessing a 

 collection of them will, at all seasons, find something in them to 

 cherish and admire. For a trifling outlay, many an unsightly spot 

 or corner, where flowering plants would not thrive, might be made 

 beautiful with ferns. 



SELECT EEENS. 



(Continued from page 243, Vol. VIII.) 



DIANTUM Eaeletense (51). — This superb maidenhair 

 ranks amongst the noblest introductions of modern 

 times ; it is at once the rarest and the richest of all the 

 Adiantums, and must for many years to come be 

 valuable, for it can only be increased by division, and 

 the few who possess plants rather prefer to keep them intact as 



£S^M^ 



ADIANTOI FARLEYEXSE. 



specimens than to tear them up for multiplication. So many beau- 

 tiful plants claim our attention as " novelties," that we cannot take 

 interest in all alike, and only a few amongst them all ever acquire 

 anything like historical fame. This distinction, however, has fallen 



