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Show Cutting a Fern. Boston ferns that have grown so largo and luxuriant as to permit dividing divid-ing into smaller plants may have cuttings cut-tings taken away from tho roots without with-out damage to the plant, If carefully' done. If transplanted to the right soil and kept under proper conditions the cutting should root well and develop devel-op Into a healthy plant. A fern does not need hot and Incessant In-cessant sunshine Two of tho finest Boston ferns known to the writoi spend the entire winter In windows where scarcely a sunbeam falls, Miough there Is plenty ot light. A "Ittle sun, howorer, does them no harm and a moM atmosphere Is essential. es-sential. o |