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care the rhizoma is liable to get broken. The 
latter penetrates the soil to some depth, and to 
transplant it successfully, you must dig deeply 
down. The best plan is to remove such specimens 
as may be found growing on shallow though rich 
beds of leaf-mould; that is to say, under con¬ 
ditions which compel the rhizoma to creep hori¬ 
zontally, instead of to grow down vertically. Then 
in order not to break or injure the rhizoma, the 
plant should be removed together with the soil 
in which it may be growing. Small specimens 
should be taken with this object, as it is generally 
impossible to get up the roots of the larger 
growths. We remember going to Hampstead 
Heath, some few years since, for a small Bracken. 
We removed one, turf and all, bodily, and the 
same plant has grown bravely. At one time it 
performed an extraordinary feat. We planted it 
between two small rockeries amongst irregular 
blocks of stone ; and during the summer it threw 
up its fronds from its creeping rhizoma in various 
directions. One morning we noticed what ap¬ 
peared to be a broken tip—freshly broken it 
seemed—of our Bracken frond lying on the top 
