Editorial Comment for this plate:

FERNS.

WE present our readers, this week, with an illustration which we are sure will please them. Though the author of this picture modestly withholds his (or her) name, the work is such that any one might be proud to own. For delicacy of detail, we rarely see anything surpassing this group of ferns. It is a refreshing bit of nature truthfully depicted in the photograph. The subject is one The subject is one which suggests a large number of similar pictures that are within the easy reach of the camera.

We admire, also, in this pictorial illustration, the work of the Photo-Gravure Company, who have so faithfully reproduced the negative in every particular. The appropriate color shade is especially to be commended. (p. 419)