PREFACE TO THE ILLUSTRATED (FOURTH) 

 EDITION. 



this, its FOURTH, Edition, 'THE 

 FERN PARADLSE ' enters upon an 

 entirely new phase of its exist- 

 ence. It is indeed, to a large 

 * extent, a new book. Not only 

 ^iSf has the original text been carefully re- 



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Y : y/\ v i se d throughout, but considerable addi- 

 X / f tions have been made to the volume. 

 The first contents comprised two parts 

 respectively called 'Fern-land' and 'Ferns and 

 Fern Culture.' These remain revised, and sup- 

 plemented by additions to their text -as Parts I. 

 and IV., whilst the whole of Parts II. and III. 



