JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vou. I. October, 1900. No. 10. 
A VALUABLE GIFT FOR THE CONSERVATORIES 
M MRS. F. L. AMES 
The Garden has been the recipient of a number of gifts of plant 
collections, and perhaps none surpasses in beauty and interest the 
recent accessions from the conservatories of Mrs. F. L. Ames, of 
th Easton, Mass. The collection embraces about 225 speci- 
mens, and it is, therefore, possible to describe here only those of 
more marked iritere 
_ Of these the as ‘died the first place in fulness of representa- 
delicate and finely cut fronds a foot to a foot and a half long. 
m 
odd plant, and its broad hairy fronds make very sopliccile its 
