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tions which it contains? There is the greater 
reason to hope for such a result because of the 
very small amount of trouble and expense which 
need be involved in the attempt. Those, of 
course, who possess the necessary means, and 
who are not pressed for time, and who, moreover, 
are inclined to enter thoroughly and heartily into 
the spirit of the Author’s suggestions, can carry 
them out with the most elaborate completeness. 
There are abundant facilities for the exercise of 
the most luxurious and expensive taste in the 
selection of the accessories needed for trans- 
forming into a 4 Fern Paradise ’ either dwelling- 
house or garden. In the drawing-rooms and 
sitting-rooms of the houses belonging to the rich 
it is not by any means uncommon to find plant- 
cases or flower-pots of an ornamental kind. 
Sometimes a number of these may be found in 
one room, and the fact is an indication that the 
owner or some member of his household possesses 
a taste which is strongly appreciative of the 
beauties of Nature. Sometimes the plants are 
Ferns, more frequently they are flowering plants. 
But even in cases where this taste for introducing 
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