D. M. FERRY & CO., DETROIT, MICH. 



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If Petunias are unsurpassed for massing in beds. 



Their richness of color, duration of bloom and easy 

 y^ culture will always render them popular. Thernod- 



m em improved varieties are very choice plants, having 

 '^il% ^®®^ wonderfully brought up from the same species which 

 iVW ' "were in use twenty-five years ago. The full, double 



(^> petunias do not produce seeds, so that to procure double 



1 V flowers we must use the seed of single flowers which have 



\0' been carefully fertilized by pollen from the double ones. 



The seed we offer is from the result of careful hybridi- 

 zation, and can be depended upon for giving as large a 

 ^%- "^^.V^ proportion of double flowers as any. 



In some strains the flowers are very large, measuring 

 four or flve inches across; in others, they are deeply 

 fringed; still others have star-like markings radiating 

 from the throat and extending nearly or quite to the 

 jijjjr outer margin of the blossom; again, others have full, 



double flowers. The colors range from white to deep 

 \\y red-purple, and are variously striped and barred. 



Plant in a warm, open, sunny place. Seeds mav be 



sown directly in the open ground, or the plants may be 



started in pots indoors for early results. The plants are tender 



a and should not be trusted in the open until settled weather Thin 



'/' to twelve to eighteen inches apart. When well started, they grow 



; almost as easily as weeds. They begin to bloom when very 



small, and contin-ae until cut off by frost. Tender perennial, 



MVilil blooming the first year. 



WW j Petunias are easily grown under glass in winter. The best 



mm i method is to sow seeds in late summer or early fall, and to grow 



OTk /;' ill stocky plants in pots, but old plants can be lifted on the approach 



/ 'I of cold weather, cut back and taken inside for winter bloom. 



/) ' Single Dwarf Compact (Inimitable Dwarf), bushy plants six to 



I ' eight inches high, covered withbeautif ully striped and blotched 



flowers. In many of them the markings are as beautifully star- 

 shaped as in the strains offered as Star Petunia. . .Pkt. 15cts 



Countess of Bllesmere, deep rose, white throat " Sets 



Finest Striped and Blotched " 5cts 



Nyctagini^Iora, pure white " Sets 



Fine mixed " 6cts 



Double mixed " SOcts 



LARGE FLOWERING PETUNIAS. 



I Large Flowered mixed Pkt. 1 Oct* 



Choicest Large Flowered mixed " 15cts 



Fringed and Stained mixed, large flowered; very desirable " 20cts 

 5uperbissima mixed. The flowers are of immense size, superbly 

 colored, and the open throats are beautifully veined. We have care- 

 fully compared other strains sold as Giants of California, etc., and 

 have found none superior, and most of them not equal to our strain 



of this magnificent variety Pkt. ^5ct8 



Brilliant Rose, exceedingly large, beautiful flowers of the brightest and yet 

 delicate rose color. One of the finest varieties in cultivation, and comes 



true from seed Pkt. iS5cts 



General Dodds. This is a strain of petunia producing large, single flowers 

 that are noticeable because of their exceedingly rich, dark purple color, 

 which is really one of the most striking among petunias. We recommend 

 General Dodds as a vigorous and very persistent bloomer, and think there 

 are very few garden plants that will make so good and satisfactory a dis- 

 play Pkt. 10ct» 



Qrandiflora Robusta fl. pi., dwarf, of robust growth, forming a compact, 

 upright, branched bush about ten inches in height and fourteen inches in 

 width, with large, double flowers in all shades of colors existing in petu- 

 nias Pkt. ^5cts 



Double Fringed Brilliant Rose, bears large, exceedingly double and fringed 



flowers of the most brilliant rose color. Very desirable Pkt. SScts 



Extra Double Fringed, many colors; beautifully fringed; a good percentage 

 double Pkt. 86cts 



