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in ferns, but in a very uncanny looking swamp with 
immense boulders between Old Forge and Bald Mountain 
I found by far the finest plants of Polypodium vulgare 
and Dryopteris Dryopteris I ever saw, and I have found 
lots of them in England, Scotland, Wales, France, 
Canada and the United States.” 
AMERICAN FERN SOCIETY 
The Brooklyn Meeting 
A meeting of the Society was held, as announced, at 
the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on the afternoon and 
evening of December 29th, in connection with the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science. 
Thirty-one persons, members and their friends, regis- 
tered as present. The authorities of the Garden re- 
ceived us hospitably and provided for us a convenient 
lecture-room with plenty of wall and table space for 
exhibits. 
The afternoon was spent in visiting, nes guidance 
of Dr. Benedict, the many points of interest at the 
Garden. First came the conservatories, where winter 
instruction in horticulture for publie school children 
was going on. The conservatories contain a consid- 
erable number of economic plants and in them Dr. 
Benedict has gathered what is undoubtedly the largest 
collection in the world of the different forms of the 
Boston fern. These show an astonishing range of 
variation, with fronds plane or ruffled, one- to five- 
pinnate and three or four inches to six feet in length. 
Next was a cold, but interesting walk about the out-door 
portion of the Garden. We visited the Japanese garden, 
planned and constructed by Japanese experts; the rock- 
ery; the local flora garden in which it is planned to 
have growing representatives of all species found wild 
within 100 miles of New York City; and last, but far 
