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summit of a rockery, though with is generally found on a calcareous 

 moderate shade they attain to greater soil, it nevertheless thrives equally 

 luxuriance. The only important point well without it, provided the station 

 in its cultivation is to render the ' is suitable in other respects. My 

 drainage secure. If placed in a damp plants are large and strong, having 

 hollow, it is pretty Bure to perish | been planted complete in the first 



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during winter, but in an elevated 

 position it is one of the hardiest 

 ferns known. The soil may be either 

 leaf-mould, peat, or sandy loam ; and, 

 though it would seem to require lime- 

 stone, because, when growing wild, it 



instance ; but some odd scraps of 

 rhizome, put out in June last, are 

 now robust specimens, having made 

 a remarkably free growth this season. 

 They are all planted in a mixture of 

 about equal parts silky loam, sandy 



