Grown in beds under our fern bower 
Hardy Fern and Flower Farm 
EDWARD GILLETT, Proprietor 
SOUTHWICK, MASSACHUSETTS 
There is so much inquiry for plants to grow in certain positions, like dark, shady, wet, 
or dry places, or open sun, that we have so marked the several kinds in this Catalogue, 
designating each kind by a special sign. This will enable our customers to make their 
selections without reading pages of descriptions. 
BE All plants desirable for growing in dark, shady places, shut out from the sunlight, 
are marked with this sign,®. Very few of the old garden plants will thrive in such a place, 
but most of the Hardy Ferns of New England, and several of the best wild flowers are at 
home here; the little nook by the porch, shut away from the sunlight, the deep shade of 
the great lawn tree, where even grass will not grow, the wooded bank, are all places to 
beautify with this class of plants. 
♦> This sign means that the plant is adapted for the low, wet places where sedges 
crowd out the grasses, and bulrushes thrive; Lobelias, Marsh Marigolds, Iris Sarracenias, 
Mentha, Lythrum, etc., find here a congenial home. 
All the old garden plants, those to grow in beds or borders, like Campanulas, Aqui- 
legias, those best suited for open, sunny places, desiring, for the most part, a moist, yet 
well-drained soil in the open sun, are marked^. 
* Plants marked with a jf are adapted for dry woods. Many of the Asters and Golden- 
rods will thrive here. Most of them come in late summer, when other flowers are passed; 
they do quite well, also, in dry, open places. 
Occasionally will be seen two of the signs against the same plant; this means that 
the plant seems to do equally well in both positions. 
