Excerpt from The Garden, 1875, Vol. 7: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches The Barnes Fund, we learn, must soon be closed. The sum collected is still under £200, and, as it is desirable that that amount should be obtained, we trust that such as have not yet subscribed will lose no time in giving their support to so good a. Cause. Messrs. Backhouse write to se from York to say that Fahrenheit's thermometer registered 31° of frost there on the morning of the 30th ult., in low open ground, being 1° only above zero. They state that they also hear of a similar reading on the other side of that city. A new book on Ferns, called The Fern Paradise, by Mv. Francis George Heath, is to be published by Hodder and Stoughton. It purports to be a plea for the culture of Ferns, and will include descriptions of ferny rambles through the green lanes, the woods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.