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THE FERN WORLD 
of a fountain, the circumstance will greatly conduce to its 
vigorous growth. The soil should be leaf-mould and peat, 
in the proportion of two parts of the former to one part of 
the latter, together with an admixture of sand or light sandy 
loam equal to one-fourth of the whole. The little caudices 
of this Fern should be very lightly covered with a thin 
surface of earth when first planted, on account of their small 
size and the difficulty of otherwise keeping them in their 
proper position. So soon, however, as they have become 
established the waterings given from time to time will have 
washed the earthy coverings from the rhizomas, and the 
latter will then be in their natural position — partly in, 
instead of quite underneath, the soil. By division of the 
rhizomas this Fern can, like the other Polypodies, be 
multiplied. 
