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ELdward Gillett, Southwick, Massachusetts 
SELECT HARDY FERNS 
7 ASPIDIUM Filix-mas (Male Fern). A very beautiful and hardy Fern, green all the 
year. Rare, i to feet. Plant in a rich, shady place. 30 cts. each. 
A. Goldianum (Cioldie’s Wood Fern). 
I'his species often grows 4 feet 
high, with fronds a foot or more 
wide. Broadly ovate in outline, 
deep green in color. 'Fakes kindly 
to cultivation in moist shades. 
Not evergreen. 20 cts. each, fi.50 
per do/. 
A. marginale (Evergreen Wood 
Fern). One of our prettiest ever¬ 
green species. Fronds r to 2 feet in 
length, 3 to 5 inches wide, tliickish, 
and of a deep green color. It de¬ 
lights in rich shady hillsides, yet it 
thrives in my garden witli Maiden¬ 
hair and other kinds. 15 cts. each, 
per doz. 
A. Noveboracense (New York Shield 
Fern). A slender species about 
a foot high, in moist, shady 
woods, with fronds 3 to 4 inches 
wide. Pale green. 15 cts. each. 
$i per doz. (See illustration, front 
cover.) 
11 A. spinulosum (Spinulose Wood Fern). A very prettv evergreen species, about 
15 inches high, with tinely dissected fronds about 4 inches wide. It is easily 
grown in a moist, shady location. 10 cts. each, per doz. 
12 A. spinulosum, var. dilatatum. Similar to the above, but with broader fronds. 
25 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
13 A. Thelypteris (Marsh Shield Fern). A foot high, with fronds about 2)4 inches 
wide. Well adapted for boggy places where it is (juite wet. 15c. each, ?i per doz. 
14 ASPLENIUM angustifolium (Narrow-Leaved SpleenwortL A charming Fern with 
light green, graceful fronds. Do not miss it in making up your list. Grows 
I to 3 feet higl), with simply divided fronds; these divisions are 3 to 4 inches long. 
Rich, moist shades. 20 cts. each, ^1.25 per doz. 
15 A. ebeneum (Ebony Spleenwort). Usually 6 to 15 inches higli. Found growing 
among the rocks and along cliffs, 
in dry, rather sunny places. Suited 
for rockwork. 10 cts. each, ^i 
per doz. 
16 A. Filix-fcemina (Lady Fern). A 
large, handsome Fern i to 2 feet 
high, with finely cut foliage. 
Plant in moist place in sun or 
shade. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
17 A. thelypteroides (Silvery Spleen- 
wort). Fronds 2 to 3 feet high by 
6 inches wide. In moist shades. 
15 cts. each, per doz. 
18 A. Trichomanes (Maidenhair Spleen- 
wort). A delicate little Fern, with 
narrow fronds 3 to 6 inches long. 
This, although found up among 
the cliffs, adapts itself to the small 
rockery, where it does exceedingly 
well. Clumps. 15 cts. each, $1.20 
per doz. Aspidium 'marginale. 
Aspidium acrostichoides. (See page i.) 
