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yard or garden extends only to a few feet, or who 

 has a window-sill in a sunless court, may culti- 

 vate these plants and enjoy their freshness and 

 beauty.' 



Writing at the same time, another Quarterly 

 He viewer freely admits that the graceful forms of 

 Ferns ' do furnish a most admirable adornment 

 for our dwellings, and that the interest taken in their 

 cultivation must prove a source of pure pleasure, 

 which cannot but have some effect upon the minds 

 of men.' 1 '" 



In noticing the Author's suggestions, a writer 

 in a morning journal remarks, ' The love of 

 flowers is now very strongly developed in the 

 Londoner indeed, it is questionable whether in 

 any city, even in Paris, is their cultivation in every 

 available nook, and in the windows, alike of rich 

 and poor, carried so far. The formation of 

 societies for the encouragement of cottage gar- 

 dening has tended to stimulate its growth, and 

 there can be no doubt that among the agencies for 

 the elevation and refinement of the poor there are 



1 The Westminster Review. 



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