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The Garden Magazine, December, 1921 



Gabriel Moulin, Photo. 



'THE TREES WERE FEATHERED LIKE BIRDS" 



Josephine Preston Peabody 



Charmingly fairy-like in aspect is this bit of cool seclusion peopled by Tree-ferns 

 and their humbler cousins of the ground. The Tree-fern, a member of the Cya- 

 theaceae family and primarily a forest dweller, finds favorable conditions on the 

 seaward side of the Pacific Coast ranges reached by moisture-laden winds from the 

 ocean. The height of the trunk, or caudex, varies from three to forty feet 



