THE 



BRITISH FERN GAZETTE. 



Vol. 2. 



MARCH, 1915. 



No. 23. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial Notes 



Our Frontispiece (a remarkable Athyrium) 



The Wardian Case.. 



Ferns, etc., in Airtight Bottles 



The Weevil as a Fern Foe 



On Variation Generally {conclusion) .. 



How I Removed my Fern Collection (T. G 



PoLYPODiuM Calcareum (Dr. F. W. Stansfield) 



Fern Experiences (Rev, E. H. Hawkins) 



British Ferns Abroad (S. P. Rowlands) 



H. 



Eley) 



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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



As we are now entering once more upon the period 

 when our British Ferns are beginning literally " to stir 

 their stumps " at the commencement of a new seasonal 

 campaign, we may hope for the resumption of the interest 

 which has naturally been more or less dormant during the 

 "dead " se .^on. We also hope that it maybe attended by 

 the acquisition of new forms, both by search for the wild 

 and by spore selection, which latter, now that we have such 

 a wealth r' choice forms to sow from, should be all the 

 more succesiiful. In this particular connection the Editor 

 cannot help expressing his regret that, with a membership 

 of over 150, and with the stimulus which he endeavours to 

 impart through the "Gazette," so little of the correspondence 

 he receives points to activity in spore sowing on proper 

 selective lines and consequent results. Contributions to the 

 " Gazette " itself are also confined to far too few members, 

 though its columns are open to all really practical matter, 

 apart from the information which the Editor is always 

 ready to give to the best of his ability. 



