

Amrrtran 3$m\ Journal 



Vol. 3 APRIL, 1913 No 2 



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Hunting the Hart's Tongue and Holly Fern at 



Owen Sound, Ontario 



H. E. KANSIER 



October is rather late to turn a botanist loose for his 

 vacation, but that was my experience in 1909. I was not 

 even sure I could get away till a few hours before I started. 

 I had made up my mind that the only thing I could do 

 so late in the season would be to go to Owen Sound, 

 Canada, where I understood the holly and hart's tongue 

 ferns grew, both "evergreen" to some extent, at least. 

 Taking a few necessaries (which includes a kodak in 

 my case) I was off. 



Owing to lack of information, poor connections, indirect 

 roads and slow schedules, to say nothing of taking a 

 train in the wrong direction, I was a long time on the 

 way, and arrived very late one evening, but providen- 

 tially landed in one of the best hotels in the place. Next 

 morning, I discovered I was in a live, little city of some 

 thirteen thousand, instead of in a country town, as I 

 had fancied before starting. . The masts of a large lake 

 vessel, less than a block away, could be seen from my 

 window, a couple of huge grain elevators along the water 

 front (since burned) and the city itself spreading out 

 practically level a mile or so wide and a couple of miles 

 •long. 



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