124 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
lyn Botanic Garden in July with two plants collected 
at the central New York field meeting. The plants 
sent were Dryopteris Goldiana and D. intermedia x mar- 
ginalis. These and others received later were placed in 
rotted leaf mould under trees to await the construction 
of a specially designed bed. ; 
Further shipments were received of plants from the 
Adirondacks and from Vermont and others are expected 
or may already have arrived. Members are urged to 
send in not only rarities but common species, and 
without fear as to duplication, as plants of the same 
species from different localities are always interesting. 
- Where possible large sods or large single specimens 
should be sent. Transplanting will be safe even up to 
frost time if considerable soil is included and the roots 
well packed. A list of species received will be published 
later. 
When the plan for a Society fern garden became 
known, the excellent suggestion was made that such a 
garden would be accessible to many more people and 
so of greater usefulness, if it could be put into the 
plural—that is, if collections of living plants were main- 
tained, not only at Brooklyn, but in different parts of 
the country. Some effort has been made in this direc- 
tion. The Botanic Garden of Harvard University, 
Cambridge, Mass., has agreed to receive and cultivate 
plants sent in, on the same terms as_ the Brooklyn 
garden; and a beginning has already been made there. 
It is hoped that similar arrangements may be made with 
other botanic gardens. 
New Members—Dana S. Carpenter, Middletown 
Springs, Vt.; Miss Una G. Dawson, 97 Mountfort St., 
Boston, Mass.; W. R. Dunlop, Fayetteville, N. Y.; 
Edwin T. Emmons, Geneva, N. Y.; Henri Gadeau de 
