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you require, for two shillings per 100. There are several other styles 

 of Teate's suspending and potting labels to choose from. And you 

 can purchase the common wooden pot-labels at sixpence per 100, 

 neater made, I dare say, than you could make them yourself, and 

 the trifling outlay would save you the trouble of making them. 



A very neat way of labelling plants is by means of small zinc or 

 wooden labels, with only a number written on them, corresponding 

 with the number entered in a little book, giving the botanical name 

 of the species and variety, with the commoner name it may be known 

 by, and the day and date when the specimen first came under your 

 care, and any other little details connected with it you may wish 

 to remember. A little historical book of this description is most 

 interesting, both to yourself and your friends. Under the heading 

 of this or that fern, for instance, you may have reminiscences noted 

 down of some past holiday spent in some of the lovely spots among 

 the hills, valleys, woods, and streams of the glorious open country ; 

 a holiday that has left the mind full of happy incidents that will 

 crop up iu your sleeping and waking dreams lor ever after. 



The rarer kinds of wild ferns are generally found in secluded 

 and sometimes almost inaccessible localities. There the rambling 

 tourist often commits wanton destruction, unthinkingly pulling up 

 the rare and beautiful little ferns in handfuls to please a passing 

 whim, or to have remembrances of his visit to the locality. Ten 

 to one the poor ferns perish, their spoilers having no idea how to 

 take care of them. If they are still fresh when they reach home 

 they put them into a pot, in any sort of way, where they die the 

 slow death of starvation and bad treatment, and then are thrown out 

 as useless. I would advise such people to let the poor ferns grow in 

 their own quarters. It is useless to pull them up unless they know 

 how to treat them well, and are willing to do it. A few fronds pre- 

 served and dried would suit their purpose just as well, and leave the 

 locality no poorer in its rare possession. Skilled fern cultivators will 

 know how to gather a rooted specimen without unduly destroying 

 more than they take away. 



INVADERS, VISITOES, AND SETTLERS IN OUR 

 GARDENS. 



{Continued from page 347.) 



jND now let us fancy ourselves taking a walk round some 

 garden with those who have been our readers, and let 

 us pass in review some of the living creatures of whose 

 lives and works we have endeavoured to give a history. 

 If our walk be in the early morning, while grass and 

 leaves are still damp with dew, we shall be very likely to meet with 

 the "Slow One" of our first paper, going home, perhaps, after his 

 breakfast on juicy leaves of some kind, and we know that he will 

 soon be shut up in his shell, and stuck fast against the smooth but- 



