FEKN PARADISE. 



round ourselves with a host of plants ? "Why do 

 we not extemporize miniature fountains and Fern 

 caverns in our rooms ? Instead of wet woollen 

 blankets or ugly sheets, instead of putting up our 

 Venetian shutters and half excluding the daylight 

 to keep the heat away, why do we not hang in 

 our windows screens of moss, Ferns, and trailing 

 ivy ? Why do we not set so green and delightful 

 a barrier as this against the scorching air of 

 summer ? Why not, in short, embower ourselves, 

 as we sit in our dwelling-rooms, in a glorious 

 mass of Fern fronds ? Let any sceptic try the 

 experiment, if only to the extent of sitting on a 

 hot summer day inside an open window, but 

 behind a screen formed by a dozen hanging 

 baskets of Ferns, embedded in dripping moss ! 

 By a very simple arrangement a superstructure 

 of rockery on a floor of zinc a ground fernery can 

 be placed under the dripping baskets, and the 

 trickle of water from the moss thus made to 

 promote the prosperity of the Ferns underneath. 

 The delightful and refreshingly cool atmosphere 

 which would be created by such an arrangement 

 as we have just suggested and described, would 



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