NOTE TO THE AUTHOR’S EDITION. 
to know that his “plea” of thirty years ago has 
had a markedly and a noticeably elevating effect 
upon public taste, he is conscious that it takes 
a long time to educate public feeling to its fullest 
extent ; he realises that a generation has grown 
up since “ The Fern Paradise ” was first 
published, and he trusts that, as the theme 
is as fresh as ever it was and is still full of 
educating, elevating and delightful possibilities, 
it will find the present generation as appreciative 
as was the previous one of what is beautiful in 
nature. 
The lanes and moorlands and streams of bonny 
Devon are as fresh and fascinating and delightful 
as they were when described more than a quarter 
of a century ago in this modest little volume ; 
and the Author earnestly trusts that the mission 
to give pleasure, of his “plea for the culture of 
Ferns,” may be continued and widely extended in 
this New Edition. 
London, October , 1905. 
