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THE FERN PARADISE. 
certainly recommend the culture together of 
Ferns and flowers wherever possible. But the 
chief object of this volume is to provide for those 
circumstances under which flowers will not grow 
—to provide for the Ailing up—with 4 something 
which is fresh and green ’—of sunless and uncul¬ 
tivated corners, now unutilized, bare, and plant- 
less. And no plants, as is sufficiently shown in 
the volume, are in every way so well adapted for 
these 4 fillings up 5 as Ferns. Hence the pro- 
joosals of 4 The Fern Paradise.’ Yet the Author 
fully endorses the following suggestions of The 
Spectator :— 4 A plant-case, or even a window- 
box, can be kept beautiful, at very small expense, 
by being filled, in the first instance, with Ferns, 
with a carpet of moss, spaces being made here 
and there by the insertion of an empty pot of 
sufficient size for the reception of a flowering 
plant or two in its season, which will look doubly 
beautiful from its verdant surroundings. These 
little window-gardens, too, need not be costly, 
especially where either a tiny bow-window or a 
broad window-seat may happen to exist; and if 
on a ground-floor, with a little outside space, 
