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floor of coppice or of forest. When the shade is so 

 dense and the soil so poor that even these plants will not 

 thrive, we may fall back on Ivy, Creeping Jenny, and 

 Periwinkle ; though, where the soil is enriched with old 

 leafmould and manure and properly dug, no shade of 

 trees is too dense for many of the ferns, both deciduous 

 and evergreen. 



