To an earlier period also belong Charles Egbert Craddock (1850- ), George Washington Cable (1844- ), Thomas Nelson Page (1853- ), Constance Fenimore Woolson (1848-1894), Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835- ), Hamlin Garland (1860- ), Ambrose Bierce (1842-?), Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892), and Kate Chopin (1851-1904).

Woolson says of it, "This fern is interesting and valuable.

Asplenium Trichomanes (From Woolson's "Ferns," Doubleday, Page & Co.)] (5) SMALL SPLEENWORT Asplenium párvulum.

Woolson writes of it, "There is nothing in the fern kingdom which looks so cool and refreshing on a hot day as a mass of this clear-cut, delicately made-up fern.

According to Woolson, "No rockery is complete without the Hart's Tongue, the long, glossy, undulating fronds of which are sufficiently unique to distinguish any collection."

Aspidium marginale (From Woolson's "Ferns," Doubleday, Page & Co.)]

[Illustration: Goldie's Fern (From Woolson's "Ferns," Doubleday, Page & Co.)] (4) THE CRESTED FERN Aspidium cristàtum.

"We may drape our homes by the yard," says Woolson, "with the most graceful and filmy of our common ferns, the bladder fern."

WOOLSON, GRACE A. Ferns and How to Grow Them.

ANNE DOUGLAS, heroine of Anne, a novel by Constance Fenimore Woolson (1882).

BETTINA WARD, a Southern girl, poor and proud, in Constance Fenimore Woolson's story of Rodman the Keeper.

"Constance Fennimore Woolson, Southern Sketches, (1880).

Richard Steele. DEXTER, (Gregory), the typical Successful Man who is first suitor, then the generous friend of Anne Douglas, in Constance Fennimore Woolson's Anne.

Fennimore Woolson, Southern Sketches (1880).

Betts reached Bristol the very day that a decision was made, on a preliminary point, in the case of Yardley versus Woolson, that greatly encouraged the father in his hopes of final success, and as greatly terrified his daughter.