Management of Fern Cases. 



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If broken with a clean edge half a shell makes a capital 

 basket. It requires a sharp saw and some patience to cut 

 the edge nicely if it is much jagged. The holes must be 

 burnt in the shell, as they are apt to split if any attempt 



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is made to pierce them with awl or gimlet, and, besides 

 that, they are so hard that the best bit of steel breaks 

 like glass against them. Make three holes for drainage, 

 and two very small holes near the rim, exactly opposite 

 each other, and use for suspending a silver string of 

 the Spanish guitar, which will never rot, and is as soft 



