THE FERN PARADISE. 
desirable to promote ? This is a question which 
the Author hopes he may be allowed to answer 
by an appeal to his Reviewers — and he has this 
excuse for adopting such a course, namely, that 
the inquiry is one that certainly possesses very 
considerable interest for the Fern-loving public. 
Indeed, there could be no justification for the 
publication of a new Edition of this book, if there 
were no reason for believing that the work might 
still be useful — in however humble a degree — in 
helping to extend yet farther the love of Ferns 
and Fern-culture. 
First, then, the Author is glad to be assured by 
one of his Reviewers that ‘to bring home Fern- 
hunting and Fern-culture to the mind and eye 
of the many 5 is ‘ an appropriate undertaking.’ 1 
This Reviewer, whose writings have the genial 
ring of a sincere lover of Nature, justly concludes 
that the Author of this volume ‘ writes for the 
million, eschews unattractive technicalities, and, 
in his aim to add thousands to the already nume- 
rous host of Fern-lovers and Fern-growers, trusts 
1 The Saturday Beview. 
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