THE FERN PARADISE. 
Asplenium trichomanes is evergreen and hardy, 
enduring bravely through the winter, and sturdily 
retaining its little bristling stalks, even when their 
crops of leaves have gone. It is a delightful 
occupant of the open-air rockery; but it will 
grow readily and well in pots. Put it in a high 
and shady cleft of your rockery — give it leaf- 
mould, and sand, and broken pieces of soft brick 
or stone — and it will always be refreshing and 
delightful. 
9 . 
THE SEA SPLEENWORT. 
Asplenium marinum. 
Plate 7 , Fig. 9. 
|HE habitats of the Sea Spleen wort are 
sea rocks and dripping sea caves. The 
instances are very few indeed in which 
it has been found growing away from the sea, and 
even in these rare instances the plants have been 
removed but a short distance from the direct 
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