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THE FERN PARADISE. 
desirable to promote ? This is a question which 
the Author hopes he may be allowed to answer 
by an appeal to his Reviewers—and he has this 
excuse for adopting such a course, namely, that 
the inquiry is one that certainly possesses very 
considerable interest for the Fern-loving public. 
Indeed, there could be no justification for the 
publication of a new Edition of this book, if there 
were no reason for believing that the work might 
still be useful—in however humble a degree—in 
helping to extend yet further the love of Ferns 
and Fern-culture. 
First, then, the Author is glad to be assured by 
one of his Reviewers that 4 to bring home Fern¬ 
hunting and Fern-culture to the mind and eye 
of the many’ is 4 an appropriate undertaking .’ 1 
This Reviewer, whose writings have the genial 
ring of a sincere lover of Nature, justly concludes 
that the Author of this volume 4 writes for the 
million, eschews unattractive technicalities, and, 
in his aim to add thousands to the already nume¬ 
rous host of Fern-lovers and Fern-growers, trusts 
1 The Saturday Review. 
