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CCD11: "The enclosure was apparendy a clipping headed 'The fern mania', now in DAR 205.10: 3, which was taken from an unidentified newspaper. The text of the clipping had itself been extracted from an article entitled 'British ferns and their varieties', which appeared in the Gardener's Weekly Magazine and Floricultural Cabinet on 5 September 1863 (Gardeners Weekly Magazine and Fbricultural Cabinet 5 (1863): 286-8; quotation on p. 288); the article was unsigned, but the journal was conducted by Shirley Hibberd. The author stated: 'It is a fact of no less interest to the philosopher speculating on the origin of species than to the fern-grower, who cares not a jot about that grave question, that to form a complete collection of British ferns and their varieties is simply impossible.'" |
