THE FISRN PARADISE. 



tions for their successful culture. We heartily 

 wish him success.' 1 



A weekly journal, which is widely read by the 

 working classes, in commenting on the Author's 

 suggestions, remarks, ' The poor work-folk of 

 this country have assuredly few artistic tastes, 

 and the fact is not wonderful, seeing how difficult 

 it is for them to encourage any such instincts they 

 may have; but they have an overweening love of 

 flowers. The dreariest window in Westminster is 

 enlivened with one pot, at all events, of sweet- 

 smelling blossoms, which have been carefully reared 

 from a struggling root. If Ferns take the place 

 of these, for the most part, unsuccessfully- 

 developed flowers, an abundant crop will answer 

 the care of the lovers of Nature, who are anxious 

 to have what is familiarly called ' a bit of green ' in 

 their homes. There is no defining what good, at 

 some moment or other, that ' bit of green ' may 

 not effect in the human heart.' 2 The writer of 

 this notice concluded that at the Author's bidding 

 ' Ferns would be certain to spring up in many 



1 The Guardian. 2 Lloyd's Newspaper. 



