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of trouble and expense which need be involved 
in the attempt. Those of course who possess 
the necessary means, and who are not pressed 
for time, and who moreover are inclined to enter 
thoroughly and heartily into the spirit of the 
author’s suggestions, can carry them out with 
the most elaborate completeness. There are 
abundant facilities for the exercise of the most 
luxurious and expensive taste in the selection 
of the accessories needed for transforming into a 
“Fern Paradise” either dwelling-house or garden. 
In the drawing-rooms and sitting-rooms of the 
houses belonging to the rich it is not by any 
means uncommon to find plant-cases or flower-pots 
of an ornamental* kind. Sometimes a number of 
these may be found in one room, and the fact 
is an indication that the owner or some mem- 
ber of his household possesses a taste which is 
strongly appreciative of the beauties of nature. 
Sometimes the plants are ferns, more frequently 
they are flowering plants ; but even in cases 
where this taste for introducing plants into the 
dwelling-house has been exercised more freely 
