THE 1'EKN PARADISE. 



their feathery tips, there you will see as if it had 

 been dewdrops. 



Have you a dark, damp corner in your garden, 

 where you cannot get your flowers to grow ? If 

 you have and few there are who have not, for 

 everything has its shady side throw some loose 

 stones together in rockery form, and plant Ferns 

 there. They will revel in the obscurity of the 

 retreat which you have chosen for them, and 

 smile gracefully and thankfully upon you from 

 out of their dark corner. 



Everywhere if you will, in your gardens and in 

 your houses, you may have a ' Fern Paradise' ' a 

 thing of beauty and a joy for ever.' Even the 

 poorest of the poor, compelled by the unceasing 

 pressure of ( work ! work ! work ! ' to cry, in the 

 touching words 



* Oh but to breathe the breath 



Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, 

 With the sky above my head, 



And the grass beneath my feet ' 



may have, if they will, a ' Fern Paradise J in the 

 saddest and most cheerless of sad homes. 



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