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first fired his enthusiasm for hunting), hit Lastrea montana 

 cvistata-gyacilis (which is very close to the much older L. m. 

 cristata of Clark), and his Kilrush Athyrium f.f. cristatum, 

 certainly one of the best crested Athyriums ever found 

 wild. As a raiser and propagator of Ferns he was exceed- 

 ingly successful. His power of minute observation and 

 his scientific carefulness and precision of work made him 

 succeed where others had failed. Besides A. f.f. Clavissima, 

 he was the first to propagate, when it was on the verge of 

 extinction, the crested form of Lastrea cemula. It is to his 

 work also that we owe the survival of the race of P. 

 angulare Baldwinii, the highest development of Col. Jones's 

 wonderful strain of plumose divisilobes. When the only 

 existing plant of this was in the possession of Mr. E. J. 

 Lowe, Mr. Druery discovered spores upon it and — obtain- 

 ing permission to take and sow them — carried them off in 

 triumph and raised from them five plants more or less 

 resembling the parent. Two or three of these still survive 

 in the collections of Mr. Cranfield and Mr. Henwood, and 

 are very close imitations of the parent. The original plant 

 has been lost sight of, and has probably ceased to exist. It 

 s entirely to the efforts of Mr. Druery that we owe the 

 " superbum" strain of A. f.f. plumosum. The two finest 

 developments of this strain are plumosum, Druery (non- 

 crested) and his plumosum percvistatum, which is the best 

 known example of the union of the crested with the plumose 

 character. Both of them are gems of the first water and 

 constitute the highest expression at present known of the 

 beauty of the plumose Lady Fern — putting A. f.f. Clarissima 

 out of the question as something more than a plumose 

 fern. His latest achievement was the raising of the 

 gvacillimum strain from P. aculeatum pulchevvimum, the credit 

 of which, however, he must share with Mr. C. B. Green 

 who grew the plant which supplied the spores and who 

 also himself raised gracillimu'ms and, along with them, 



