THE 



BRITISH FERN GAZETTE. 



Vol. 2. JUNE, 1915. No. 24. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Editorial Notes .. .. .. .. ,. .. .. 283 



Our Frontispiece (P. acul. pulch. foliosum Edwards) .. 285 



Fern Tassels 



Mental Rambles in Fernland .. 



The Wardian Case {conclusion) . . 



Native Ferns : Why Not ? (Rev. Canon H. K 



Our Hobby . . 



List of Members 



Contents of Vol. II., Nos. 13 — 24 



286 



289 



295 



Moore, D.D.) 296 



299 



304 



309 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



It is naturally with great pleasure that we can announce 

 with this issue the completion of a second volume (Nos. 

 13-24) of the " British Fern Gazette," constituting a record 

 in the literature of the British Fern cult, as the only previous 

 attempt to establish a periodical record in that connection 

 got no farther than the first number. x\t that time, 

 however, our Native Ferns in their varietal character were 

 still suffering from the ill-effects of injudicious selection 

 and distribution by the trade, which, by cataloguing and 

 sending out defective forms as of merit, led inevitably to a 

 great reaction after a period of appreciation due to the 

 really meritorious varieties which the pioneers of that time 

 had found wild. Despite, however, the public neglect of 

 these beautiful plants thus caused, the pioneers aforesaid, 

 the connoisseurs who "knew," to speak tautologically, 

 persevered both as hunters and collective cultivators, and 

 eventually, towards the end of the century, had acquired so 

 great a number of fine varieties, and, moreover, had by 



