_Editor Mayflower:_
If any of your readers want something odd and interesting in the way of
plants let them try one of your Little Monarch Fern Balls. I have had
rather hard luck with mine. I received the Fern Ball about a year ago,
and every member of the family except myself condemned it at once as
being "no good," but I kept it watered and in a few weeks it began to
show signs of life and had several little fronds on it in April when we
decided to move, and the Fern Ball was left with my other plants for a
friend to care for. She kept them all well watered except that, and when
I next saw it in May it looked a few degrees deader than it did in the
first place (if possible), but it came to life again and then it got
chilled in the fall so it died again apparently; but now it is starting
to grow all over and if nothing new happens to it it will soon be very
pretty. I think it has more lives than a cat.--_Mrs. F. M. Young._