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The ordinary red flower-pots, for instance, are 
within the reach of all, even the very poorest, and 
these can be brought freely into requisition to aid 
the Fern-lover in transforming his home into a 
4 Fern Paradise.’ The lovely plants will be none 
the less graceful because grown in these simple 
contrivances. On the contrary, they will show to 
all the greater advantage when their own lovely 
forms are left—unsurrounded by artistic acces¬ 
sories—to speak to the eye with the quiet elo¬ 
quence of natural grace. 
In the garden also, however small it may be, or, 
as these pages have shown, even in the paved and 
narrow yard which may exist when a garden is 
absent, the same simplicity of arrangement will 
suffice for producing the most pleasing effects. 
Pockwork, for instance, will provide, perhaps, the 
most convenient site for the disposition of garden 
Ferns; and here it will be absolutely essential 
rigidly to exclude anything like prim ornamenta¬ 
tion. There must be no brilliantly-coloured or 
polished stones ; no coral; no regular gradation 
of size and shape in the material used. Hough 
misshapen blocks of stone, arranged according to 
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