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THE FERN WORLD 
Montgomery, and Pembroke. In Scotland it is an inhabitant 
of the counties of Aberdeen, Argyle, Berwick, Clackmannan, 
Cromarty, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Edinburgh, Elgin, Fife, 
Forfar, Kincardine, Kirkcudbright, Lanark, Linlithgow, 
Nairn, Perth, Renfrew, Roxburgh, Ross, Stirling and 
Sutherland, and of the islands of Arran, Bute, Cantire, Islay, 
Harris and Orkney. In Ireland it is found in the counties 
of Antrim, Clare, Cork, Down, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, and 
Kilkenny, in King’s County, Limerick, Louth, Tipperary, 
Tyrone, and Wicklow. 
Culture. — As is the case with all rock or wall-growing 
Ferns it is essential to bear in mind that the present species 
will not thrive unless a proper amount of care has been taken 
in removing it from its home. Sometimes it will be found 
difficult to remove specimens with their crown root-stock 
and rootlets perfect and uninjured, owing to the hardness of 
the rock or wall, and to the depth to which the fibrous 
rootlets have penetrated. It is not only necessary, it must be 
remembered, to get out the entire plant, but to see that it has 
not been torn or bruised. Carelessness in these matters is 
often answerable for the want of success in cultivation. If 
possible, it is advisable to procure specimens from the soft- 
soil of a hedge-bank, where it is easy to get up not only the 
entire mass of its rootlets, but some of its native soil with it, 
When the plant has been secured in proper condition, it may 
be cultivated either in the open rockery — in which case it must 
have an upper and airy, though sufficiently moist and sheltered, 
tier — in the Fern house, in open pots, orin theFerncase. Forall 
kinds of rock-work, large or small, it is well adapted on account of 
the elegance and hardiness of its little evergreen fronds. The 
soil under cultivation should consist of light sandy loam and 
leaf-mould, of some small pieces of old mortar and broken 
sandstone and soft brick. A horizontal position, or rather 
an oblique position, will be more suitable for this Fern — as 
