100 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
sideways and toward the back to higher plants, inter- 
rupted by occasional taller plants, and with tree ferns 
rising along the sides. Bunker Hill monument, done 
in selaginellas, stood at the front and foot of the hill 
instead of at the top. Hanging baskets of polypodiums, 
fern balls of nephrolepis, maidenhairs, flanked the wall 
at the left, while a cluster of huge cibotiums, a “herd” 
of staghorns, and a corner of bromeliads covered the 
other wall. 
Beyond the main Manda group were smaller groups, 
of orchids, of cacti, and some other flowering plants, 
as well as of ferns. The champion fern of the whole 
exhibit was a huge Angiopteris evecta, shown by Julius 
Roehrs, of Rutherford, N. J. Its leaves towered ten 
feet from a fleshy stem, with leafstalks three inches 
through. One of the most beautiful species in the whole 
exhibition was shown by Thos. Proctor, in Davallia 
Mooreana, with beautifully cut pale green leaves. The 
far end of the large room was covered with cedars, to 
top a banked display of ferns shown by Wollrath & 
Sons of Massachusetts. 
In the third room were two fern groups, together 
with several orchid collections of special merit, includ- 
ing the champion orchid of the entire exhibition. Here 
were fifty plants of Boston fern varieties shown by F. ' 
R. Pierson, of Tarrytown, N. Y., who grows specimen 
plants so full of leaves as to make one wonder how 
they can all be nourished from one pot of soil. Here 
also were the ferns sent by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 
one hundred and eight species and varieties. Sixty- 
six belonged in one genus, Nephrolepis, and forty-seven 
were varieties of one form, the Boston fern, the genealogy 
of which had been worked out at the Garden. The 
other ferns included forty-two different forms covering 
as wide a range of genera and families as possible, and 
including such oddities as the mosquito fern, Azolla, 
