VI 
PREFACE. 
stand and possess as many members of the Fern family 
as possible, and to make onr immigrants so comfortable 
that they shall quite forget that they are not growing 
where they planted themselves. To this intent we have 
written, and to this intent we invite you to read, expect- 
ing only practical information from a work which makes 
no pretension to learning, and is simply what it calls 
itself — an Introduction. 
