THE FEIiX PAEADISE. 
depth of soil ; but that soil must be leaf-mould. 
We brought the leaf-mould from Devonshire with 
our little stock of Polypodies. Some of these we 
planted out in our rockery. All have succeeded 
to perfection. But the grand plant before us 
has exceeded our most sanguine expectations. 
All we did was simply to strew the bottom of a 
small seed-pan — nine inches wide by three inches 
deep — with broken pieces of flower-pot ; upon 
that to place leaf -mould, and plant our Polypody 
therein, covering its rliizoma lightly with the 
mould. We then placed the pan upon a large red 
clay saucer, and poured water on the roots until 
the saucer underneath was full. We continued 
this process from time to time, never allowing the 
rhizomas of our Polypody to become dry, and 
always keeping the saucer underneath the pan 
full of water. We have our reward in the grand 
development of the plant. The fronds have ex- 
ceeded by one inch their maximum growth when 
we found them in their wild habitat. The seed- 
pan is crowned with a mass of rich, vigorous 
fronds, nineteen inches in length. The old fronds 
had all got broken off before we planted our 
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