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The Fern Garden. 



The following varieties are good — irnbricatum, lanci- 

 folium, multifurcatum, ramosurn, strictum. 



Cetekach. — C. officinarum, the scaly spleenwort, is 



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a very interesting fern. It grows luxuriantly in our 

 cool fern-house, in a chink of the rough wall near the 

 door. A good pot fern. It loves air, stone, old mortar, 



