FERNS IN THE LIVING ROOM 83 



I count myself of the favoured few privileged 

 to find and test the cultural qualities of the 

 celebrated hybrid, Scott's spleenwort (As- 

 plenium ebenoides). 



scott's spleenwort under cultivation 



This strange fern partakes of the natures 

 of both its parents, Asplenlum platyneuron 

 and Camptosorus rhizophyllus, and its cul- 

 tural possibilities are much the same. Great 

 care was exercised in perfecting the drain- 

 age in the glass fern dish, also in propping 

 the stones upon which the roots rest in 

 such a manner that the natural pose of the 

 plant was exactly the same as when grow- 

 ing on the mossy slope between the rocks. 

 My plant was taken from a limestone 

 ridge in July, and five months of indoor 

 growth is represented in the picture (Plate 

 17). The older fronds retain their colour and 

 show a greater tendency toward developing 

 rooting apices indoors than they do when 

 grown outdoors. The stronger influence of 

 the walking leaf is apparent in the new comer, 



