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the giant Filix-mas, and Lastreas dilatata and 
spinulosa. 
Lastrea thelypteris has also found a home on 
beautiful Haldon. The spot it has chosen is a 
green swamp in the midst of the everlasting hills. 
The fronds make their way through reed and 
briar up to the fair sunlight, and sometimes will 
measure a yard and even more in length. The- 
lypteris is exceedingly troublesome in cultivation, 
from its creeping habit ; and I should recommend 
it to be placed at the back of the Fernery, where 
there would be the greatest amount of shade and 
damp, and where it would be out of the way. 
Growing wild, Thelypteris is not without beauty; 
but in cultivation it has nothing particular to 
recommend it. The fertile fronds have no decided 
character of their own, but look like a common 
frond, ill-grown and faded. Its chief interest is 
the difficulty of getting it out of its treacherous 
lurking-place, — so green and safe in appearance, 
so unsubstantial in reality. Bogland abounds in 
beauty. The golden asphodel is there, and the 
