40 BRITISH FERNS. 
that in all the mass of Fern-literature that owes 
its existence to my various editions, “What is new 
is not true: and what is true is not new.” It 
is, however, a great satisfaction to me to believe 
that the study, originated by myself, has been a 
source of profit to others, and that their emulative 
industry has conferred no injury on myself. This 
final edition, like those which have preceded it, will 
doubtless raise up its host of imitators: to all such 
I most cordially wish success. But it is a still 
Greater satisfaction to me to know, that by intro- 
ducing this new study, I have afforded pleamre to 
thousands and pain to none: wherever I @ there 
are Ferneries in the open garden, in the grem-house 
or the dwelling-house, and “ Newman's Fern,” albeit 
sometimes under another name, has become a house- 
hold book. 
