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and, as the receptacle for the plants is of soapstone, 

 it may be sprinkled without injury. 



Among the ferns suitable for open in-door cul- 

 ture are — 



Nephrolepis exaltata. 

 Nephrolepis tuberosa. 

 Onychium JaponicMui. 

 Adiantu77i fonnosu7n. 

 A diantiim hispidiiliiin. 

 Gy77i7iogr amine chrysophylla. 

 Gy 771 71 ogra i7t 771 e calo77tela7i os. 

 Davallia Ca7iarie7isis. 

 Pteris tre77i7ila. 

 Pteris serrulata. 



Pteris quadriatirita, var. argyrea. 

 Platyceriu77i alcicorfie. 



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Very pretty arrangements of our native ferns and 

 mosses are made by many persons of taste during 

 summer journeys among the mountains or other 

 places where these plants abound. For this work 

 tall-growing plants should not be chosen, but the 

 collection made of the smaller species ; nor should 

 the charming little ''Solomon's Seal," ''Trienta- 

 lis," " Gold-thread," &c., be excluded because they 

 are not ferns. The extemporized frames in which 

 these are arranged will probably be box-covers, or 

 whatever is accessible at the time, and probably, 

 too, be covered with birch-bark. A friend who had, 

 one autumn, two such stands of ferns and mountain- 

 plants, found that, as winter came on, the ferns lost 



