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When used in this way, small brads or wire nails are 

 driven, and a net-work of string made, on which to tie 

 the ferns. 



Small ferns arranged naturally in rock- work, with birds 

 and animals, are preferable to the common artificial leaves 

 and half-bleached and colored grasses that are so often 

 used. 



