THE FERN PARADISE. 



desirable to promote ? This is a question which 

 the Author hopes he may be allowed to answer 

 by an appeal to his Reviewers and he has this 

 excuse for adopting such a course, namely, that 

 the inquiry is one that certainly possesses very 

 considerable interest for the Fern-loving public. 

 Indeed, there could be no justification for the 

 publication of a new Edition of this book, if there 

 were no reason for believing that the work might 

 still be useful in however humble a degree in 

 helping to extend yet further the love of Ferns 

 and Fern-culture. 



First, then, the Author is glad to be assured by 

 one of his Reviewers that ' to bring home Fern- 

 huiiting and Fern-culture to the mind and eye 

 of the many' is 'an appropriate undertaking.' 1 

 This Reviewer, whose writings have the genial 

 ring of a sincere lover of Nature, justly concludes 

 that the Author of this volume fi writes for the 

 million, eschews unattractive technicalities, and, 

 in his aim to add thousands to the already nume- 

 rous host of Fern-lovers and Fern-growers, trusts 



1 The Saturday Review. 



