ASPLENIUM SEPTENTRIONALE, AT HOME. 39 
when he caught sight of me. " Ye come to me 
the morn and I'll see. I live at Stenton ; ye'll hae 
seen my hous forhye the rock." 
The next day I kept my appointment ; and my 
friend, true to his word — for he was a very Scot — 
had two large clumps of Septentrionale for me. 
Oh, leddy," he said, " the gran gardeners here- 
aboots hae taen all the ither sort, and I could nae 
find ye one root." 
When I offered the old man a shilling he 
answered, " Nae, nae, keep your siller, I am glad 
to hae pleased ye." 
And I tvas pleased, for never have I seen in 
England such plants of Septentrionale as these. 
They were no unhealthy-looking scraps picked off 
the face of the rock, but compact tufts (one of 
them mixed with A. trichomanes), of three or four 
inches in size. Much has been written about the 
dif&culty of managing Septentrionale, but I have 
hitherto found none. I planted these specimens 
(considerably reduced by gifts to friends) in an 
open Fernery facing the south, and they come up 
