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IRature Studies in Berkshire. 



hour's walk will enable one to gather a score of 

 different kinds. Nor is there a square mile of New 

 England countryside where almost the same variety 

 may not be found, to give the patient student a love 

 of these charming plants and help him to know their 

 native haunts. For one, I have to thank that wise 

 gardener, Dame Nature, for the fernery she maintains 

 for me, free of expense, as long as I care to use it. 1 

 should not dare to trust my own skill in constructing 

 and keeping up a fernery ; for I am no gardener, and 

 it is sure death to any growing thing to attempt to 

 cultivate it in my house. But I can always trust the 

 skilled Grower of green things whose care keeps up 

 this vast fernery of all outdoors in such attractive 

 shape for me. And the chief glory of my fernery is 

 that it is everybody's else as well. 



