A VERMONT FERN GARDEN 51 
men, but to no avail, for the fern never lived beyond 
the first season. F inally I was able to visit a station 
for this fern and took up a root with a large amount 
of soil and had no difficulty in making the plant live. 
This fern has grown and fruited well in my fernery 
and is one of my most attractive and treasured plants. 
Later I received from a dealer another plant taken up 
With a large amount of soil and this plant too has done 
well. Both plants are in a rather dry part of my fern 
order. 
As for the Botrychiums I have tried them all from 
Botrychium sim plex E. Hitcheock to B. obliquum Muhl. 
but the only one that has really flourished is B. vir- 
ginianum (L.) Sw. B. obliquum has sometimes sur- 
Vived; but B. simplex and B. ramosum (Roth) Aschers. 
tnd B. lanceolatum (Gmel.) Angstroem, var. angustiseg- 
mentum Pease & Moore have always died, even though 
I have taken up a large amount of soil with the roots. 
T even sent to England for a root of B. lunaria (L.) 
Sw., as that is represented in the Vermont flora by a 
“ingle specimen collected at Lake Willoughby, but that 
'00 went the way of the others.! Possibly some reader 
of this article can tell me how to grow successfully 
the members of this interesting family. 
For several years I have had five growing plants of 
Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link. This is in a slightly 
“used bed with other ferns, but I have placed small 
Pieces of marble throughout the soil. 
Asplenium viride Huds. has done well for two oF 
ree years and then died as has Woodsia glabella R. 
" and Woodsia alpina (Bolton) 8. F. Gray and As- 
Plenium Ruta-muraria L. Woodsia ilvensis (L.) R. Br., 
%odsia obtusa (Spreng.) Torr., and some of the sone 
Woodsias and Polypodium vulgare L. do well if rocks 
S 
s been 
bins ®e the above was written, a small colony of B lunaria ba 
hear St. Johnsbury, Vt 
