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yard or garden extends only to a few feet, or who 
has a window-sill in a sunless court, may culti¬ 
vate these plants and enjoy their freshness and 
beauty. 5 
Writing at the same time, another Quarterly 
Reviewer freely admits that the graceful forms of 
Ferns c do furnish a most admirable adornment 
for our dwellings, and that the interest taken in their 
cultivation must prove a source of pure pleasure, 
which cannot but have some effect upon the minds 
of men. 51 
In noticing the Author’s suggestions, a writer 
in a morning journal remarks,— 4 The love of 
flowers is now very strongly developed in the 
Londoner—indeed, it is questionable whether in 
any city, even in Paris, is their cultivation in every 
available nook, and in the windows, alike of rich 
and poor, carried so far. The formation of 
societies for the encouragement of cottage gar- 
dening has tended to stimulate its growth, and 
there can be no doubt that among the agencies for 
the elevation and refinement of the poor there are 
x The Westminster Review. 
