. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igio. The American Florist. 289 jumped to the conclusion that it was the rarer Venus hair instead of that of a common maid. To be sure, my trusted authority (Clute) questioned the finding of this fern as far nortli as New York and this was not only New York but cen- tral New York at that, but might not I be the happy discoverer of a new sta- tion? But as specimen after speci- men was revealed to my searching glance the conclusion forced itself upon my reluctant mind that such abundance in a place so easily a
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igio. The American Florist. 289 jumped to the conclusion that it was the rarer Venus hair instead of that of a common maid. To be sure, my trusted authority (Clute) questioned the finding of this fern as far nortli as New York and this was not only New York but cen- tral New York at that, but might not I be the happy discoverer of a new sta- tion? But as specimen after speci- men was revealed to my searching glance the conclusion forced itself upon my reluctant mind that such abundance in a place so easily acces- sible could hardly have been over- looked by botanists and that these were, after all, only the youthful prog- eny of the beautiful but common Adiantum pedatum. Ah well! they were very charming even though no fame attended their discovery. About the same time I found some tiny ferns with blades perhaps an inch and a half long, tapering both ways from the middle and so frail that after they were pressed their reality was only proven by their per- fection. I puzzled over them for some time, comparing them with this or that, until one day it flashed over me that they, too, were babies, re- .sembling in "build," at least, their parent, the York York fern, and now that it is impossible for me to longer evade the disappointing fact that rare ferns are not common nor readily found I find much pleasure in the tiny forms that often set me guessing their identity. The Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides) is one that can hardly be mistaken unless in the very earli- est stages of growth, though contrary to many precedents the juvenile forms lack the grace of mature fronds; but the youthful progeny of Athyrium fll- ix foemina must seem to their lady mother like the changelings of a fairy tale so little do they resemble the par- ent plant. But all this applies only to those ferns that are reproduced hy spores. The young plants produced by the bulblets found on the fron
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