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THE FEEN PAEADISE. 
have fastened themselves to the interior surface 
of the pans will shrivel and injure the plants. 
'Wire baskets of various shapes and designs will 
be found useful aids in the work of beautifying 
the rooms of a house with Ferns. The accom¬ 
panying woodcut will show the disposition of 
Ferns in such baskets. 
In damp woods the Hartstongue and the 
Lady Fern are, not unfrequently, found growing 
together, one clump of earth including the root¬ 
stocks and matted fibrous rootlets of the two 
species of Fern. If such a clump of Fern-roots 
be brought undisturbed into the home paradise of 
