1g BRITISH FERNS, 
almost accomplish whatever he desires, and may even 
er — 
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q) uty t atural fernery. 
First of all, the character of the soil must be 
carefully considered ; if your garden is on the chalk 
or clay, you must remove the surface-soil and sub- 
stitute a mixture of peat-earth, sand and loam, 
allowing the peat-earth largely to preponderate. Then 
a fernery should never have a flat surface; walls 
-and banks must be introduced, in order to obtain 
ae inequality in which Nature delights. If you wish 
to see how Nature manages these things, I especially 
Tecommend a trip to Tunbridge Wells, and to Hridge 
and the High Rocks in the immediate neighbourhood 
of Tunbridge Wells. 1 can Scareely imagine a greater 
> Sometimes a handfal of 
rocks seem to have been thrown down together, and 
sometimes a whole row of rocks extends, in sacle 
file, for half a mile among the trees. The material 
of the rocks is sandstone, and the Surface seems ty 
