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THE PERN PARADISE. 
their feathery tips, there you will see as if it had 
been dewdrops. 
Have you a dark, damp corner in your garden, 
where you cannot get your flowers to grow ? If 
you have—and few there are who have not, for 
everything has its shady side—throw some loose 
stones together in rockery form, and plant Ferns 
there. They will revel in the obscurity of the 
retreat which you have chosen for them, and 
smile gracefully and thankfully upon you from 
out of their dark corner. 
Everywhere if you will, in your gardens and in 
your houses, you may have a e Fern Paradise 5 —‘ a 
thing of beauty and a joy for ever . 5 Even the 
poorest of the poor, compelled by the unceasing 
pressure of 6 work ! work ! work ! 5 to cry, in the 
touching words— 
‘ Oh but to breathe the breath 
Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, 
With the sky above my head, 
And the grass beneath my feet—’ 
may have, if they will, a ‘Fern Paradise 5 in the 
saddest and most cheerless of sad homes. 
