我不知道树蕨生长速度快慢，即使长得很快，我也不大有希望看得到这株小苗在我家花园里长大，长成我想象里的样子了。Whether tree ferns grow quickly or slowly I don't know, but even if it is quickly, it is not possible that I shall ever see this one playing the part I envisaged for it in our garden. 当然我会尽量让它在罐子里朝这个方向努力，至少希望能坚持到从罐子里移植到地上，我想它未来的样子应该不错，可是，总难免觉得这种努力有些不值得。 I shall pot it on towards that end as far as I can, hoping to see it reach a size at which it can be planted out, but virtuous though planting for the future is supposed to be, it doesn't feel rewarding.