FERNS, MOSSES, AND LIVERWORTS. 



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For cultivation, the small or seedling plants should 

 be selected, as these are most likely to succeed ; they 

 should be dug up, and not pulled up, with a portion 

 of the soil attached, forming a ball round the roots. 



THE HARD FERN, 



Lower in the scale of being, but not less beautiful, 

 are the mosses. They may not have so many en- 

 thusiastic admirers as the ferns, perhaps because they 

 are smaller, and rather more difficult to determine, 



