52 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
are placed near the roots or if a small rockery can be 
constructed. 
Of the Vermont rock ferns I ane had the greatest 
difficulty with Pellaea atropurpurea (L.) Link. Pot- 
grown plants thrive the first season but never appear 
the second spring. Aspleniuwm septentrionale (L.) Hofim. 
did well for a season but died the second year after a 
struggle for existence. 
Others with good facilities for an elaborate rockery 
will doubtless succeed with many of these rock ferns 
which have troubled me so much. 
The many varieties of the Lady fern which may be 
purchased in England and from Dreer in this country 
are a welcome addition to the fernery — need no 
special treatment. 
Two very interesting and attractive ferns with which 
I have been successful are Lomaria spicant and As- 
plenium goringianum pictum from Japan. 
Four of the choicest and most treasured ferns I have 
came from plants originally in the garden of the late 
Mr. George Davenport. These were given by Mr. 
Davenport to Mrs. Emily Hitchcock Terry and very 
kindly passed on to me, years later, by Mrs. Terry: 
These are Dicksonia punctilobula cristata (Maxon) 
Clute, Aspidium thelypteris Pufferae (A. A. Eaton) 
Bokiiean: Aspidium spinulosum, var: concordianum 
(Davenport) Eastman and Aspidium  pittsfordense 
(Slosson) Eastman. I might say that the ordinary 
Dicksonia does well in a sunny exposure or the sout 
side of the house and is an attractive cover for a stone 
underpinning. One of the hardiest and most easily 
grown of our native ferns is Aepiaeum Filiz-mas (L. 
Sw. and an interesting fern for one’s fernery is Scolo- 
pendrium vulgare Sm., but in Vermont this sometimes 
suffers from our boven: winters. 
Hanover, N. H 
