74 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
ferns Polystichum munitum and Woodwardia radicans 
were the only ones that I could succeed in making 
ow. Gymnopteris triangularis, Cheilanthes californica, 
Pellaea ornithopus, and Polypodium californicum would 
not grow at all, although I received new plants several 
times. I received Dryopteris filiz-mas from Idaho which 
did not grow, while those I brought from Colorado 
grew nicely and are still growing, and I was able to 
separate the clumps and send some to Mr. Joseph R. 
Mumbauer, of Pennsburg, Pa., in exchange for Dryopteris 
cristata and D. cristata Clintoniana. The two Dryopteris 
from Pennsylvania grew well and are still doing finely. 
I also received Polystichum Lonchitis from Mr. Mum- 
bauer which grew very well for a year and died as Ala- 
bama was too far south for it. 
In 1914 Miss F. E. Corne of Cambridge, Mass., sent 
me Dryopteris Goldiana, Polystichum Braunii, and 
Phegopteris polypodioides which I set in one corner of 
the garden and all grew off nicely for the first year. 
The second year D. Goldiana grew larger than the 
previous year, but P. Braunii showed signs of not 
being satisfied with the climate of Alabama. In 1916 
it produced only very small fronds, and this year, 1917, 
it failed to appear. Polystichum aculeatum from Cali- 
fornia did about the same as its eastern relative—it 
lived two years and died. The Goldie’s fern and the 
crested fern as well as the male fern seem to delight 
in the damp sandy soil of north Alabama.. The long 
beech fern is still alive but develops only small fronds. 
Along the Tennessee river, on damp limestone rocks, 
I found Adiantum Capillus-Veneris with fronds 3 ft. 
long. I transferred several clumps to the sandy soil 
of my fernery, placing pieces of limestone rocks around 
them, and they grew well for me. 
The winter of 1916-7 was unusually cold with the 
thermometer several degrees below zero, and most of 
