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Tree Ferns (probably Dicksonia antarctica) were popular as Christmas decorations, as seen in the illustration by Julian Ashton of a young lady selling fern fronds titled 'Christmas is Coming'.
(from the Illustrated Sydney News 20 December 1879)

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