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THE FERN PARADISE. 
garden, then these beautiful little pellucid-leaved 
plants will thrive luxuriantly ; but the natural 
conditions can be imitated perfectly under a 
covering of glass, which will secure the object of 
keeping an atmosphere of perpetual moisture 
around the rhizomes and fronds. The soil should 
be peat and silver sand, and on this compost 
should be arranged little blocks of stone, between 
which the roots should be placed. The whole 
should be saturated with water, and then covered 
with the glass shade. Here the Filmy Ferns 
will grow luxuriantly, and will thus, in the warm 
humidity of their adopted home, exhibit the 
freshness which they can only otherwise exhibit 
in their rocky habitats amongst the misty thunders 
of the moorland streams. 
