Excerpt from The Ferns and Fern Allies of New Zealand: With Instructions for Their Collection and Hints on Their Cultivation, With Five PlatesThe demand for a compendious and handy description of the Ferns of New Zealand has led to the publication of more than one little work on the subject 3 but from one cause or another these books have rapidly passed out of print, so that the collector - desirous of identifying the plants he obtains - is obliged to consult Hooker's Handbook of the New Zealand Flora, a work which is too general in its outline for his purposes, and which is already somewhat out of date. To satisfy this demand, the author has been led to prepare this small manual, in the hope that it will meet the requirements of the ease and will prove to be longer-lived and of more lasting value than its predecessors.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.