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the left, and Ferns suspended overhead, as well as Palms and other 

 plants. The method of growing Adiantums outside earthen vessels is a 

 favourite one in Malta. The globular vessel is very porous, and kept full 



Fig. 104.- Casiaiuna in the latk Mk. Hanky's Gakukn. (Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



of water. On the outside are fixed lumps of clay, upon which the Fern 

 roots are fastened ; they soon clothe the whole with a luxuriant mass of 

 foliage. 1 have figured one of these "bombli," as they are called, as an 



