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Ireland, not a mountain rill nor waterfall but owns this 
favourite fern on mountains, too, where clouds congregate, 
and among huge unsheltered masses of rocks raged over by 
BEECH FEKN*. 
storms. Those who visit the Pass of Glencoe and Loch. 
Katrine the one with its dread records of crime and 
misery, the other smiling in perfect beauty may notice 
this graceful fern as not unfrequent in both localities. 
The Beech-fern, on account of its humid haunts, is 
somewhat difficult to cultivate in a Fernery. Newman, 
however, adopted a most ingenious expedient with com- 
plete success. He suspended above the fern a vessel con- 
taining water, which he allowed to drop slowly on a stone 
or flat tile contiguous to the plant ; the fronds were in con- 
sequence kept moist iy the mimic spray that rebounded 
from the surface. 
