98 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
Boston from Sept. 22-25 reproduced a “land of ferns”’ 
through the activity of the Massachusetts Horticultural 
Society, and its president, A. C. Burrage. On the days 
and nights preceding Sept. 22nd, trains, boats, and 
auto trucks were carrying ferns in quantity toward 
Horticultural Hall, the home building of the Horti- 
cultural Society. To this focus there were gathered 
from Pennsylvania, New J ersey, New York, Connecticut, 
and Massachusetts, from commercial growers, from 
private individuals, and from public institutions, more 
species of ferns than are found in any state in the Union, 
even Florida, almost as many as are to be found in the 
whole country. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden sent 
sixteen large cases and crates, totalling nearly two tons, 
but W. A. Manda, a commercial grower of South Orange, 
N. J., sent one hundred and twenty-five, weighing 
proportionately more. One o’clock, Thursday, Sept. 
‘22nd, after all night labor by many, found the exhibi- 
tion ready for visitors. 
The visitor entered first a room about sixty-five feet 
long, given over entirely to the plants entered by Mr. 
Burrage. The center was a bower of splendid tree ferns, 
mostly Mexican cibotiums set high on cork covered 
pedestals. The four walls were hidden by arrays of 
ferns and orchids, with some other plants. On one wall 
were numerous plants of the bizarre staghorn ferns, 
Alcicornium, (or Platycerium,) stretching out their spore 
bearing antler-like leaves while their humus leaves 
clung tightly to the substratum. At the other end of 
the room, through a lane of tree ferns, was an array of 
various foliage plants, Begonias, selaginellas, and hang- 
ing baskets of a Polynesian polypodium, P. subauri- 
culatum, and its ruffled variety, Knightae. Against the 
long wall at the left was a glorious spread of orchids, 
mostly of the Cattleya type, but with all manner of 
colors, intermingled with sprays of Oncidium, with its 
