redealt in almost endless permutations and combinations. The 
end result is that within scarcely more than twenty years, florists 
have detected and named probably seventy-five distinct varia- 
tions, from some one of the forms first separating from the 
Boston fern ; and the total number of forms which have appeared, 
many not named, undoubtedly exceeds two hundred. 
In the same house with the exhibit of Boston fern varieties 
at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden a chart has been set up at the 
entrance which shows in a graphic way the genealogical tree of 
the different varieties as follows: 
GENEALOGY 
of the 
AMERICAN VARIETIES 
ot 
BOSTON FERN 
| Magnifica 
Clarlo Sm ' thi ' 
Verona ' 
I Gracillima 
Barrowsi 
Whitman, 
Milleri- 
Elegantissima - — Galveston, 
Robusta — I 
( Piersoni J Splendida 
I .. 
Ferlihs 
Exaltata — 
Boston Fern 
Elegantissima- 
Compacta 
Wanamaker — 1 
Baeri 
Eleg : Compacta 
Cristata 
Goodi 
Whitman! 
Compacta 
Elmslordi 
Millsi 
i Supeiior 
Craig, 
J Trailing 
| Emerald 
t Fleece 
Dwarf Boston - 
Superbissima — Muscosa 
Childs! I 
Viridissima — 1 Pershing — 1 
Anna Foster 
3-P,nnate 
Sport 
Harris, — W. K. Harris 
Schuberti 
Amerpohh 
, Dwarf 
t Sport 
Roosvelti 
Scott, 
? Gretnai 
I Giatrasi 
New York — 1 
| Teddy jr. j Rando , ph 
| Roosevelti ( 
Improved Wilsoni 
| Wagneri 
I 
■{ Falcata 
I 
[Scholzeli — 3-Pmnate Scholzeli 
| New Jersey 
I 
Queen Sophie 
I 
1 King Constantine 
— - Victory 
Brooklyn 
Botanic 
Garden 
