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twenty-five thousand fronds were shipped to a Boston 

 florist. This one florist, in the course of a year uses 

 one million fern fronds and one thousand pounds of 

 ground pine or Lycopodium of various varieties. 

 In southern Vermont, Dryopteris intermedia (Muhl.) 

 A. Gray, the spinulose wood fern is also collected 

 and shipped to florists. This fern is known to the- 

 trade as the "fancy" or "lace" fern. A firm in 

 western Massachusetts, to whom are sent most of 

 the fronds collected in southern Vermont, informs me 

 that their collectors have gathered ferns in the same 

 localities for twenty-five years. They state also that 

 they can see no diminution in the quantity or even the 

 quality of the plants. 



If our ferns are in no great danger from this industry, 

 they are in more or less danger from the many nursery- 

 men who are now dealing in our hardy plants. Some 

 of these florists, instead of raising ferns from the spores, 

 buy the plants directly from collectors who despoil our 

 wpods of roots. In one section of Vermont, I'm told, 

 a beautiful station for the Goldies fern, Dryopteris 

 Gohliana (Hook.) A. Gray, was entirely eradicated by 

 persons collecting for one nurseryman. Our delicate 

 maiden-hair, Adiantum pedatum L., is also in danger 

 from being destroyed. Here is a chance for the society 

 for the Protection of Xative Plants as well as members 

 of the American Fern Society to do some good work. 



Harold Goddard Rugg. 



Dryopteris filix-mas x marginalis under culture. 



Miss F. C. Come sends in the following interesting 

 note: 



"... My hybrid filix-mas x marginalis, found two 

 years ago at Barnard, Vt. f thrives finely under cultiva- 

 tion and has become a more graceful plant, va -like 

 s hape. It has this year eighteen fronds, growing in a 



