FOR SHADY OR DIFFICULT LOCATIONS 
^✓ierhaps, some time, some great scholar or chemist will devise a universal color 
/ / language that can really picture color so one can see it. We wish we had it 
now, to tell you what we see in our Ferns, with their seemingly limitless 
variations of green and their intricate varied shapes and forms. Wander with 
us, some day in the summer, over our Vermont hillsides, see whole pastures given 
over to a single variety shimmering in the sun, or discover a single tiny brook- 
side plant of a beauty and pattern that only the Great Artist could have designed, 
and you will share some of our enthusiasm for one of Nature’s most interesting 
families. 
Individual families do not describe easily, for the variations of each are too 
great. The best we can do is to point out that there is some variety of Fern that 
can be grown in almost any conceivable location, be it a rocky hillside or a dank 
swamp, and that all of the plants in our list are absolutely hardy. And, of course, 
no other family, as a whole, does so well in shade. Our list supplies all the infor¬ 
mation you may need as to where to use each variety. 
Osmund a 
ctnnamomea 
Asplenium 
felix-foemina 
Phegopteris 
polypodioides 
