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FERNS AND WILD FLOWERS 87 



proUferum that most people consider a greenhouse plant, 

 come up every year, punctual as the morning sunshine, 

 and want nothing but water, and some fresh leaf-mould 

 to grow into, now and then. Sometimes in the autumn 

 we scatter them with dead leaves, and always leave the 

 fronds to wither as they will ; no tidying up is allowed. 

 Here Nature holds her sway, and the touch of wildness in 

 an otherwise well-ordered garden is refreshing. 



