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The Fern Garden . 
The following varieties are good— imhricatum, land - 
folium , multifur catum, ramosum , strictum. 
Ceterach. — C. officinarum, the scaly spleenwort, is 
ATHYRIUM EILIX-ECEMmA GKRANDICEPS. 
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, 
