

IT IS our ambition as seedsmen to offer our customers nothing but the best, and we believe that 

 through our long and extensive experience we have obtained an unequaled knowledge of the. habits 

 and character of garden vegetables and flowers and of the soil and climatic conditions essential 

 to the production of seeds of the highest type. 



Our large stock seed farms and gardens are devoted to the production of the very best seeds which 

 can be grown, regardless of cost, and these are planted for us in the location which experience has shown 

 is the most favorable for the development of the highest quality of each particular sort; then this product 

 is offered our customers. That it is the best, we demonstrate at our Trial Grounds where samples of seeds 

 produced by us are planted side by side and compared with the best obtainable elsewhere. We also plant 

 samples of all so called new varieties or improved stocks, and immediately grow and offer our customers 

 anything we find has real merit. Our patrons may rest assured that everything offered by us has been 

 carefully tested and found to be what we claim, and that if any particular sort is not included in our list, 

 it is because we have found that it possessed no distinct merit or was the same or inferior to some strain 



I we offer. 

 We certainly have unequaled advantages for the production of the best seeds at a cost which enables 

 us to offer them to our customers at the lowest prices which well grown and selected seeds true to name 

 j can be furnished; but we do not claim to compete in prices with those made by irresponsible and hap- 

 « hazard growers and dealers whose sole effort is to secure the lowest priced seeds regardless of quality; 

 ■ such seeds are not cheap, but dear at any price. Every intelligent planter will secure the best seed obtain- 

 ! able and use no other. 



OUR TERMS ARE STRICTLY CASH WITH THE 



ORDER. We do not send C. O. D., as the cost of collecting 

 return charges is quite an unnecessary item of expense, 

 and the prices being given, we can conceive of no necessity 

 to warrant goods being so sent. 



HOW TO SEND MONEY. Remittances ma.y be made 

 AT OUR RISK by any of the following methods, viz. : Postal 

 Money Order, Draft on New York or Chicago, or Express 

 Company's Money Order. 



The rates charged for Postal Money Orders and Express 

 Money Orders are now so low that these are the best ways to 

 remit. We will bear the expense of sending money in either 

 of these ways. Deduct the cost of the order from amount 

 sent. Express Money Orders can be obtained at all offices 

 of the principal Express Companies. They are cheap and 

 absolutely safe. 



When Money Orders cannot be obtained, letters containing 

 money should always be registered. Money in ordinary letters 

 is unsafe. If currency is sent by express, the charges should 

 be prepaid, and if local checks are used, 25 cents must be 

 added to cover the cost of collection. 



FREE OF POSTAGE OR EXPRESS CHARGES, packets, 



Ounces, Two Ounces, Quarter Pounds or Pounds, ordered 

 at list prices, will be sent free by mail or express. 



Customers ordering enough for a freight shipment, 100 

 pounds or more, or desiring to pay their own express charges 

 may deduct 8 cents per pound from prices of this catalogue 

 on all seeds quoted by the pound or less. 



PINTS AND QUARTS, pints, Quarts and Four Quarts, 

 ordered at list prices, fifteen cents per quart, ten cents 

 PER pint, must be added for postage or express charges, and 

 they will then be sent free. 



PECK, BUSHEL AND HUNDRED POUND LOTS, where 



Peck, Bushel or Hundred Pound lots are ordered, we deliver 

 free at depot or express office in Detroit, Mich., the freight or 

 express charges to be paid by the party ordering. 



^^Where perishable or other goods are ordered to be 

 sent by freight or express to such great distances that the 

 cost of transportation will nearly or quite equal the value of 

 the goods, we must decline to ship unless purchasers remit us, 

 in addition to the price of goods, sufficient funds to prepay 

 transportation charges. When this requirement is not com- 

 plied with, we reserve the right of declining the order and 

 returning money to the person ordering. 



SEEDS BY MEASURE. One-fourth bushel and over 

 sold at BUSHEL rates; four quarts and over up to one- 

 quarter bushel sold at four-quart rates; less than four 

 quarts sold at quart or pint rates. 



SEEDS BY WEIGHT. We supply half pound and over 

 at pound rates; less than half pound lots are charged at 

 OUNCE, TWO-OUNCE or QUARTER-POUND RATES; 25 LBS. and over 



at 100 LB. RATES WHEN QUOTED. 



BAGS. — To every order for one-quarter bushel and upwards, 

 to the amount of two bushels, 15 cents must be added for a 

 new bag in which to ship. 



SEEDS IN PACKETS. We offer the foUowing induce- 

 ments to those wishing to purchase seeds in packets: Select 

 packets to the value of $1-15 and send us 81.00; for S2.35 send 

 $2.00; for $3.60 send $3.00; for $4.85 send $4.00; for $6.15 send 

 $5.00; for $12.50 send $10.00; for $26.00 send $20.00. The seeds 

 will be sent by mail, postpaid, but these low rates apply 

 to seeds in packets only, and at catalogue prices, and not 

 to seeds by weight or measure. 



NAME AND ADDRESS SHOULD ALWAYS BE GIVEN. 



We frequently receive letters containing money and orders, 

 which we cannot fill because the sender has failed to sign 

 HIS NAME OR THE P. O. ADDRESS is Omitted, and the post mark 

 being blurred, we are unable to fill the order, no matter how 

 much we desire to do so. Use our Order Sheet and Envelope 

 whenever you can, filling out the blank and signing your name, 

 and you will have no cause to censure us. 



GUARANTEE. Complaints made that seeds are not good, 

 should quite as often be attributed to other causes as to the 

 quality of the seeds. There are hundreds of contingencies 

 continually arising to prevent the best seeds always giving 

 satisfaction, such as sowing too deep, too shallow, in too wet 

 or too dry soil; insects of all descriptions destroying the 

 plants as soon as or before they appear; wet weather, cold 

 weather, frosts, chemical changes m the seeds induced by 

 temperature, etc. For the above reasons it is impracticable 

 to guarantee seeds under all circumstances. 



We give no warranty, express or implied, as to description, 

 purity, productiveness, or any other matter of any seeds we 

 send out, and we will not be in any way responsible for the 

 crop. If the purchaser does not accept the goods on these 

 terms they are at once to be returned. 



D. M. FERRY & CO. 



Detroit, Mich., Jan. 1, 1898. 



