PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. 
-vf^HE success of this modest ‘Plea 
for the culture of Ferns’ has far 
exceeded the Author’s anticipa- 
tions. Two editions of the little 
work have already been rapidly 
exhausted, and a kind and indulgent public 
> * •' have now called for a Third Edition. 
The Author believes that the popularity 
of ‘The Fern Paradise’ is mainly, if 
not entirely, due to the singular favour which 
has been shown to it by the Press ; although 
he ventures to hope that the success of his work 
may, at least in some degree, be ascribed to the 
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