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Ferns, Palms, or other popular groups, no one could deny that the Marantas 
come mto the first rank of fine-foliaged plants of moderate size. 
The Marantas, taking tlie name in tlie broad sense above indicated, 
form not only a well-favoured but, as we have intimated, a numerous family, 
no fewer than twenty-five new members whereof were shown in one group 
by Mr. Linden at the International Horticultural Exhibition of 1866. Our 
present object is not, however, to exhaust the catalogue of beauty which 
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