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fern consists in the contrast of the bright reddish brown colour of the 

 crown and rachis, with the soft yellowish green fronds. The sori are 

 round, numerous, and small, and the fronds are mostly fertile when 

 mature. 



To grow this fern to perfection, give it a light turfy soil, consisting 



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for the most part of tough peat torn to pieces of the size of the fist, 

 two parts mixed with one part cocoa-nut fibre refuse, and one part 

 loam from rotted turf, with a small allowance of fine siftings of broken 

 pots and sharp sand ; with plenty of pot room, effectual drainage, an<? 

 abundance of water, this fern will make a very conspicuous figure is. 



