INTRODUCTION TO PERN LAND. 
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tiful of tlie Britisli Ferns. Yet beautiful as are 
the varieties of which we shall speak, they are 
within the reach of all who may choose to gather 
them, and that is our reason for devoting especial 
attention to these varieties. 
Gentle reader, will you follow us in imagination 
whilst we endeavour to describe to you some 
Devonshire lanes which are familiar to us ? And 
please remember that, exquisitely beautiful as 
they are, they are nevertheless but types of thou¬ 
sands of other lanes that the ordinary tourist may 
find for himself, in his rambles after Ferns in 
the ‘Fern-paradise’ of England. When we have 
described these lanes, and have noted the Ferns 
which we shall find in them, we will try to show 
how every one may have in his own home, 
wherever that may be, a real ‘ Fern-paradise.’ 
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