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CHOICE BRITISH FERNS. 
that the bulk of the most marked and beautiful types may 
now be seen there in perfection, a new range of rockwork 
having been specially devoted to them, and constructed in 
such a manner as to afford the various species congenial 
homes, while, at the same time, every trace of obtrusive 
artificiality has been skilfully avoided. We are sanguine that 
our large public parks may follow this good example, by 
devoting some portions of rockwork in their many suitable 
nooks and corners to good specimens of these interesting 
plants. This has already been done at West Ham Park with 
wonderfully good effect. 
In conclusion, we have to express our hearty thanks to 
Col. A. M. Jones, of Clifton, for permission to use his splendid 
series of Nature Prints of our British Ferns; to Mr. F. W. 
Stansfield, of Sale, for the loan of same and much valuable 
information in connection with our subject ; and also to 
Dr. Masters, for permission to utilise, in the opening chapters, 
a series of articles which had already appeared in the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
