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for English Gardens. 



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ful nurserymen near York, where he grows not only our royal so- 

 called " flowering fern," the Osmunda regalis, and several foreign 



Entrance to Cave for Killarney Fern in Rock-garden. 



allied species, but the most beautiful of all this beautiful tribe, the 

 moisture-loving Killarney fern, which clothes the soil of the damp 

 dark woods by the Tore waterfall. 



The beauty of these horticultural experiments is that they can 

 be tried on so small a scale, and are thus within the reach of almost 

 every one ; yielding a source of pure and healthy enjoyment which 

 few other pursuits will afford. Mr. Eobinson almost promises us 

 that his little book shall be the first of a series of similar manuals 

 on different departments of gardening ; and we can hardly conceive 

 a greater service than this to a large number of his countrymen, 

 who merely require to be told how to set to work to cultivate this 

 fascinating science. 



