Polypodiuin vulKure (see 3) 
Hardy Fern and Flower Farm 
EDWARD GILLETT, Proprietor. 
SOUTHWICK, MASSACHUSETTS 
There is so much inquiry for plants to grow in certain iJositions, 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. 
3eAll plants desirable for growing in dark, shady places, shut out from the sunlight, 
are marked with this sign, m. Very few of the old garden jdants will thrive in such a 
place, but most of the Hardy Ferns of New I'mgland, 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, Sarra- 
cenias, Mentha, Lythrum, etc., find here a congenial home. 
All the old garden plants, those to grow in beds or borders, like Cam])anulas, 
Aquilegias, 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 arc adapted for dry woods. Many of the Asters and 
Goldenrods 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. 
