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The Fern Garden. 
The following varieties are good — imbricatum , land - 
folium, multifur catum, ramosum, strictum. 
Ceterach. — C . officinarum, the scaly spleen wort, is 
ATHYRIUM :Fi:LIX-F(EMI]SrA GRAXDICEPS. 
a very interesting fern. It grows luxuriantly in our 
cool fern-house, in a chink of the rough wall near the 
door. A good pot fern. It loves air, stone, old mortar, 
