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displeased eyes. ''Where had we found the 
Fern ? " Then he invited us to his cottage, and 
showed us, oh ! so very many imprisoned Maiden- 
hairs, languishing in captivity, which he had 
sought to sell to stray tourists ; so that shortly 
every plant must he gonOo 
St, Ives is one of the most picturesque towns in 
England. The grey houses jut out on a tongue 
of land into the sea, which chafes around and 
upon them, quite ready, in appearance at leasts 
to swallow them up, as it swallowed the land of 
Lyonesse long ago. I found no other rare Fern at 
Lelant or St« Ives^ but there are many curious 
wild plants, and the churches are well worth a 
visits particularly that of Lelant. 
I planted the specimens of A. capillus-Yeneris 
in pots half full of drainage, with peat earth, and 
a little silver sancL They thrive well in cultiva- 
tion, but they must be housed during winter in the 
north of England. In Devonshire I have suc- 
ceeded in making them live in the rockery all the 
year„ A short distance from Nice, in France, 
