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THE EEEN PARADISE. 
and enormous roots extending to nearly the whole 
width of the wall, and forming a compact mass 
nearly a foot square. This wall, like the one at 
Berry Pomeroy, was immersed in the deepest 
shade flung by the over-hanging trees. 
Planted in the highest and shadiest clefts of the 
out-of-door rockery, with leaf-mould, sand, and 
old bits of mortar for soil,—kept sufficiently moist, 
but not drenched with water,—the elegant Scale 
Fern will succeed well. 
