THE FEEN PARADISE. 



Asplenium trichomanes is evergreen and hardy, 

 enduring bravely through the winter, and sturdily 

 retaining its little bristling stalks, even when their 

 crops of leaves have gone. It is a delightful 

 occupant of the open-air rockery; but it will 

 grow readily and well in pots. Put it in a high 

 and shady cleft of your rockery give it leaf- 

 mould, and sand, and broken pieces of soft brick 

 or stone and it will always be refreshing and 

 delightful. 



9. 



THE SEA SPLEENWOKT. 



Asplenium marinum. 



PLATE 7, FIG. 9. 



JHE habitats of the Sea Spleen wort are 

 sea rocks and dripping sea caves. The 

 instances are very few indeed in which 

 it has been found growing away from the sea, and 

 even in these rare instances the plants have been 

 removed but a short distance from the direct 



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