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suburban amateur gardener. These have, however, created a 
demand which has had, and is having, truly deplorable results. The 
flourish, and, rather than mcrease, generally require frequent re- 
newal. Thus, apart from, and antecedent to, all foolish and error- 
blossoms and unrolling fronds have long led to a wholesale rooting- 
up of these species in the neighbourhood, not only of London, but 
also of our other large towns, by dealers who find it cheaper to 
e case of our ferns is, however, even more serious, since 
there are no specific limits to the ambitions of that amateur 
; Webb, MeDakin, and Gray, South-Eastern Naturalist, vol. viii.(1903), v. 58, 
+ Nature Notte sat ae pelt astern Naturalist, vol. viii. (1903), p. 5 
er Bri 
» p- 196. 
} T. R. Arch » Flora of Plymouth (1880), p. 278, 
