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a little management it may be grown quite readily 

 by anybody. I have grown it in three different 

 ways. First in the open garden, planted in deep 

 silvery peat, and covered with a hand-glass, 

 rubbed over with a half-dry paint brush, to furnish 

 the necessary amount of shade. In that way it did 

 very well, — luxuriantly, in fact. The glass, nearly 

 quite close at all times, preserved the desired 

 moisture around the plant, and it never required any 

 attention, except to remove weeds now and then. 



Of course anybody can follow the same practice. 

 As a painted handlight is not a very ornamental ob- 

 ject, it would of course be better to place it in some 

 shady or out-of-the-way spot. Such will also accord 

 better with its character. Another equally successful 

 way is to plant it in a moist, cool, shady, cold frame, 

 such as you would use for bringing on a batch of 

 young hardy ferns — the frame to face the north 

 instead of the south, as is usually the case. By 

 putting some peat and leaf-mould in the back of 

 such a frame, and planting a nice little specimen 

 or two of the Linnsea, I have had it nearly fill 

 the frame. In a like kind of frame it may be 

 grown to perfection in pots of peat, the peat to 

 be kept very moist. In such, when it becomes well 

 established, the graceful shoots hang in a mass 



