JOURNAL 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vor, III. June, 1902. No. 30. 
THE COLLECTION OF TREE-FERNS. 
In the arrangement of the public conservatory collections made 
possible by the completion of the additional houses, the tree- 
ferns thus far obtained have been brought together in the south- 
eastern corner house of the range, where they may now be 
studied to advantage. Our collection of these interesting and 
beautiful plants is as yet meagre, and it is hoped that additional 
specimens may be secured during the present year. The illus- 
tration accompanying this note shows the general present ap- 
pearance of the interior of this house. The largest specimen is 
an Australian tree-fern, A/sophila australis, which was presented 
to the Garden by Mr. John Crosby Brown, and is a fine example 
of this species ; two smaller trees of the same kind are also there, 
the one presented by Mr. Samuel Thorne and the other by 
Columbia University. There are three small, but fine specimens 
of another Australian tree-fern, Dicksonia antarctica, one obtained 
by exchange with the Buffalo Botanical Garden and two pre- 
sented by Mrs. F. L. Ames. A very fine specimen of Schiede’s 
tree-fern, Cibotium Schiede?, from Mexico, was given by Mrs. F. 
s, and two smaller plants of the lamb-fern, Cidotium 
Banas from southern China, were obtained by exchange 
from the conservatories at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Two 
small specimens of Cyathea arborca, native of Jamaica, obtained 
by exchange with the conservatory in Central Park, and one 
specimen of Cyathea pubescens from the Botanical Gardens of 
Jamaica, two plants of Aemitclia grandifolia, obtained by the 
writer on the forest slopes of Mt. Misery on the Island of St. 
Kitts, and several other tree ferns obtained from the same island 
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