Scorr: EARLY HORTICULTURAL JOURNALISM 81 
greenhouse, we are pleased to salute the pagan deities Pomona and 
Flora and brush impatiently aside all other fabulous personifica- 
tions. 
This pioneer horticultural journalist was besides the pioneer 
fern student of the United States and his memory has been kept 
green by those beloved publications, the Fern Bulletin and its 
successor, the American Fern J ournal, in whose pages may be read 
the enchanting history of Asplenium ebenoides К. К. Scott, one of 
the most noted of the world's ferns. 
It gives me great pleasure to revive the memory of the early 
Journal and in the brief time at my disposal, I cannot refer to the 
splendid magazines that have succeeded it until to-day we are in 
possession of the crowning effort in that distinguished quarterly, 
the Addisonia of the New York Botanical Garden. 
The memory that endures is the consecrated shrine of the 
historian and the Greek statue of antique time is of greater value 
than the whole of Manhattan Island! 
