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The Garden Magazine, September, 1923 
Mattie Edwards Hewitt , Photo 
“SPIRIT OF BEAUTY! TARRY STILL A-WHILE 
THEY ARE NOT DEAD, THINE ANCIENT VOTARIES, 
SOME FEW THERE ARE TO WHOM THY RADIANT SMILE 
IS BETTER THAN A THOUSAND VICTORIES.” 
Oscar IVilde 
In the partial shade of a pergola Ferns find congenial 
conditions and of our native varieties there are a score 
or more happily adaptable to such uses. The gardener 
who feels the fascination of their slow unfurlment in 
springtime, the delicate spraying beauty of leaf and its 
myriad forms, will find Tilton’s “Fern Lover’s Com¬ 
panion” (Little, Brown & Co., 1923) most illuminating 
reading. Garden of Mrs. Walter Scott-Fitz, The 
Narrows, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. 
