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JULY WILD FLOWKRS. 10 



" Everywhere about up are they glowing, 

 Some like stars, to tell us spring is come ; 



Others their blue eyes with tears overflowing, 

 Stand like Ruth amid the golden corn." 



Longfellow. 



In our last, we were induced to preface 

 our sketch of July Wild Flo>\er8, with a 

 few familiar remarks and quotations calcula- 

 ted to exhibit them with the graces which 

 poesy can lend ; let us now mention by name 

 some of the most striking members of this fair 

 sisterhood. We shall award the tirst place to 

 Ferns, one of the crowning glories of 'the 

 Gomin woods, Bijou marsh, etc., in July. 



Our native Ferns — over forty varieties — be- 

 long to a very numerous cla|p, comprising 

 more than 3,000 species. There were, how- 

 ever, but 180 known to the great Swedish 

 botanist Linnjeus, the friend of the savant 

 and botanist Herr Peter Kalm, to whom Mr. 

 W. Kirby in his Le Chien cVOr novel intro- 

 duces us so pleasantly, when Kalm visited 

 Quebec, in 1748 — the guest of Governor La 

 Galisonni^re, at the Chateau St. Louis. 



Linneaus' classification of the Ferns, with 

 some modern improvements, still prevails. 



We learn that the taste for cultivating Ferns 

 ' began at Berlin, about the year 1820 ; the 



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