PREFACE TO THE ILLUSTRATED (FOURTH) 
EDITION. 
this, its Fourth, Edition, ‘The 
Fern Paradise 5 enters upon an 
entirely new phase of its exist- 
ence. It is indeed, to a large 
Wgr^ extent, a new book. Tv 
extent, a new book. Not only 
has the original text been carefully re- 
vised throughout, but considerable addi- 
X ' tions have been made to the volume. 
The first contents comprised two parts 
respectively called ‘Fern-land’ and ‘Ferns and 
Fern Culture.’ These remain — -revised, and sup- 
plemented by additions to their text — as Parts I. 
and IV. j whilst the whole of Parts II. and III, 
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