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FERRY & GO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 





ACCESSIBILITY. 



Although we fill many 

 thousands of mail orders 

 every season our chief 

 jrneans ol distributing Fer- 

 jry's seeds is through the 

 lands of first class local 

 dealers throughout the 

 "pnited States and Can- 

 ada. There is scarcely a 

 |esponsible retail mer- 

 ffiant ■ anywhere that 

 |annot supply your needs 

 lullyjand immediately with 

 the minimum- amount of 

 trouble and the maximum 

 amount of pleasure and 

 profit in the results. Mar- 

 ket gardeners and others 

 planting large areas have 

 come to depend confident- 

 ly upon our seeds sold in 

 bulk. They know that 

 purity of type results in 

 large crops of the finest 

 fruits and vegetables and 

 that'it pays to plant only 

 the'best. Our market gar- 

 dener trade increases every 

 year and we seldom lose a 

 customer. The prof ession- 

 als who make their Hying 

 by gardening — in other 

 words, the experts— know 

 and use Ferry's seeds. It 

 is no wonder then that 

 there is a steady increase 

 in the number of those 

 who buy Ferry's packet 

 seeds for smaller gardens. 



COMMISSION 

 PACKETS. There must, 

 of course, b.e a good 

 reason for this general 

 confidence in our packet 

 seeds. No ■ product can 

 maintain a prominent 

 place in public esteem for 

 sixty years unless it pos- 

 sesses genuine intrinsic 

 merit. Ferry's seeds have 

 become a household neces- 





FERRY'S SEEDS 



'AT THE STORE AROUND THE CORNER" 



sit} 7 because they were the best obtainable. It has been to our financial advantage to supply satisfactory goods 

 because having long ago reached the territorial limits of that portion of the continent lying north of the Rio 

 Grande, we must sell to the same people year after year. We cannot afford to lose our well earned position in 

 public esteem. When you buy a packet of Ferry's you can be sure that we know as far as it is possible to 

 foresee that the seeds will be of satisfactory vitality and will produce good results. 



"FRESH EVERY YEAR'* means that our packets are put up especially for the season in which they 

 are sold. We do not send out packets a second time. Our traveling salesmen visit the trade at least once 

 every year. All unsold papered seeds are then taken up and shipped back to Detroit and none of our packets 

 are ever on sale a second season. Therefore you can be just as sure of the condition of seeds off ered in a 

 newly opened "commission" box as of those received directly from us by mail. The purchaser receives in a 

 sealed envelope fresh seeds that bear the imprint of the largest garden seed house in the world, seeds that have 

 directly behind them the most complete organization, the greatest experience and the finest facilities ever 

 devoted to the production and distribution of garden seeds. 



EXPERIENCE. Our splendid organization enables us to specialize. In a smaller seed house which includes 

 other lines than garden seeds, one. may be familiar with more kinds of work but he cannot know as much about 

 any one thing as if he gave that thing his whole attention. In a large organization a man tends to find his 

 proper work and having found it to become its master. Hence at every point our business is directed by men 

 especially fitted by nature and training for the duties they perform. Moreover we have been supplying 

 garden seeds for sixty-nine years. Multiply our huge annual volume by the time we have been seed merchants 

 and you, can readily see we have had the greatest experience of any garden seed producers now in business. 



In a word, we have every facility and incentive to meet your needs. Buy Ferry's seeds of the store 

 around the corner" and you will become one of our army of staunch friends. 



