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The Fern Garden, 
and pliable as packthread. The two ferns here repre¬ 
sented are examples of my mode of suspending. The 
Adiantum is in a cocoa-nut, bored all over with holes a 
quarter or third of an inch in diameter, and it has 
pushed crowns through every one of them, so as to 
smother the outside with foliage. The Camptosorus is 
in a little case formed of thin bark, bound with brass 
wire. To water these, the best way is to lift them out 
and lower them into a deep vessel, with a stick passed 
through the suspending cord and laid across the top of 
