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The Fern Garden . 
banks in shady lanes, on dry stone walls in dusty roads, 
where there is not much shade for it, and frequently 
covers an old brick wall as with a felt of small yellowish 
fronds. When growing between the bricks inside a 
well, and putting its huge tongues down towards the 
water, it is a splendid object, and a good companion to 
the true maidenhair, which will thrive in a similar 
position. The species and all the varieties make first- 
rate pot plants. 
SCOLOPENDRITTM VULGARE RAMO-MARGINATTTM. 
The most generally useful of the varieties, and one 
of the ferns which should be first of all secured by the 
cultivation, is crispum , a grand pot or rockery fern. 
The following are handsome pot plants, the smallest of 
them well adapted for cases :— bimarginato-multifidum , 
cornutum , cristatum , digitatum , glomeratum 9 laceratum , 
macrosorum , ramo-marginatum , ramosum-majus , Wardii . 
Trichomanes. — T. radicans , the Bristle fern, re- 
