22 FERN GROWING 



Botanists had been protesting over and over again against 

 the use of descriptive and compound Latin names that were 

 so generally adopted by the raisers and discoverers of varieties 

 of British Ferns, so at length it was determined to hold a 

 Fern conference and a Fern show at the Chiswick Gardens of 

 the Royal Horticultural Society, and as from this seems to 

 date the turning-point to a more healthy state of things, it 

 is desirable that it should be placed on record with full details 

 both as regards the show and the congress. In the arrange- 

 ments of the Royal Horticultural Society for 1890, as pub- 

 lished in their " Transactions," we find : — 



ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FERN CONFERENCE. 



The Conference will commence on Wednesday, July 23rd, at 2 p.m., J. G. 

 Baker, Esq., F.R.S., President of the Conference, in the Chair. 



Papers will be read as follow : — 



"The Systematic Relations of Ferns," by Professor Bower, F.R.S. 

 "The Cultivation of Exotic Ferns," by Mr. W. H. Gower, F.R.H.S. 

 "Hybrid Ferns," by Mr. E. J. Lowe, F.R.S., F.R.H.S. 

 "Plumose British Ferns," by Mr. C. T. Druery, F.L.S., F.R.H.S. 

 " Hardy Ferns and their Cultivation," by Mr. J. Birkenhead, F.R.H.S. 



The following ladies and gentlemen have been requested to act as a 

 General Committee : — Mr. J. G. Baker, F.R.S. : Professor Bower, F.R.S. ; Mr. 

 W. H. Gower, F.R.H.S. j Mr. E. J. Lowe, F.R.S. ; Mr. C. T. Druery, F.L.S. ; 

 Mr. J. Birkenhead, F.R.H.S.; Dr. F. W. Stansfield ; Mr. R. LI. Praeger, 

 B.E. ; Mr. E. F. Fox; Mr. James Moly; Sir E. G. Loder, Bart., F.R.H.S. ; 

 Major T. B. Cowburn, F.R.H.S. ; Mrs. C. Cooper; Miss H. J. Kitson ; Mr. 

 R. Irwin Lynch, A.L.S. ; Mr. E. J. Walker ; Mr. W. B. Latham, F.R.H.S. ; 

 Mr. P. Neill Eraser, F.R.S.E., F.R.H.S. ; Mr. W. Forster ; Mr. J. Loraine 

 Baldwin; Mr. J. E. Mapplebeck, F.L.S ; Mr. James O'Brien, F.R.H.S. ; Mr. 

 H. B. May, F.R.H.S. ; Colonel Beddome, F.L.S. ; Mr. J. H. Fitt. 



