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The Fern Garden . 
said, but I may, even thus far, have assisted you to 
read the Book of Nature to advantage, so that at the 
point where 1 stop your studies will take a better 
direction under authority which never fails. 
“ Our needful knowledge, like our needful food, 
Unkedg’d lies open in life's common field." 
ADIANTUM FARLEYENSE. 
