76 Z>. M. FERRY & CO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



pyramidal growth, one to two feet high. 

 Single plants will often produce ten or twenty 

 perfect flowers. 

 Aster, Victoria, white, turning to azure blue.. 15 



" " peach blossom 15 



" " violet 15 



" mixed, including all colors 10 



Aster, Crown. 



Aster, Cocardeau, or Crown, mixed, a very hand- 

 some variety, producing large flowers, the 

 centers being pure white, surrounded with 

 many bright colors; about two feet high 10 



" Reid's Improved Quilled, mixed, remarkable 

 for the globular form of its singular flowers. 

 The single petals consist of tubes or quills, 

 and the outer courses are blossom petals, which 

 are slightly reflexed. Plants are one and a 

 half to two feet high, and there are a number 

 of distinct colors mixed. 10 



" Goliath, Mont Rose, splendid variety, with 

 flowers of charming peach color. The blossoms 

 are freely produced, of enormous size, and 

 most perfect form. Plants of robust, branch- 

 ing habit . ... 20 



" Goliath, Mont Blanc, similar to the Mont 



Rose, but having enormous white flowers . . .20 



" Goliath, Crimson, very brilliant and conspicu- 

 ous. Its extremely large blossoms are valua- 

 ble for florists 25 



" Porcupine, or Hedgehog, mixed, the dis- 

 tinguishing feature of this variety is the quills • 

 or sharply pointed petals. The flowers are 

 very curious in appearance, and quite showy. 

 Plants grow about two feet high. A fine 

 range of colors 10 



" Giant Emperor, snow white, flowers very 

 double, of enormous size, and good form. 

 Good for bouquets; two feet high 10 



" mixed Washington, a remarkably large va- 

 riety, exceeding all the other varieties in size, 

 frequently measuring five to six inches across 

 the blossom; of robust growth, and most per- 

 fect in form and color. The mixture includes 

 a number of very delicate and beautiful colors. 

 A valuable acquisition 20 



AURICULA — (Primula). 



A favorite with florists, and much in demand in Eng- 



land and Scotland, where it is to be found in perfection. 



Does not bear well the 



extremes of heat and 



cold. The flowers all 



have various colored 



eyes; the light ones 



with dark ground colors 



are considered prefer- 

 able. The best soil to 



grow them in is leaf 



mold and sand, enrich- 

 ed with decomposed 



manure. The seed 



should be sown early 



in spring in pots, in 



hot-bed, and trans- 

 planted one foot apart. 



Tender perennial. 



Auricula, Alpine, a 



native of the Auricula. 

 Alpine regions of Switzerland, improved by 



cultivation, and the most hardy variety 15 



finest prize, collection of the best sorts, embrac- 

 ing all choice known varieties; selfs, grey, 

 white and green edged 20 



Spring flowering shrubs, universally admired for their 

 beautiful flowers, which are invariably produced in 

 great profusion. The flowers are of all conceivable 

 colors, and for brilliancy, are unsurpassed. Need hot- 

 house culture. Plant in April, in cold frame; prick out 

 the seedlings the year following, in beds, four inches 

 apart to remain till they flower. The plants should be 

 covered in the fall, with straw or mulch, as the late 

 frosts sometimes destroy the young, early shoots. 

 Azalea, indica, finest mixed. Green-house ever- 

 green shrubs; flowers very beautiful 25 



" pontica, finest varieties. Hardy, deciduous 

 shrubs, producing flowers of surpassing 

 beauty, and all conceivable colors 25 



BACHELOR'S BUTTON. 



A perfectly hardy border plant, succeeding finely in 

 any common garden soil, but the flowers are more bril- 

 liant if grown in gravelly ground. Under cultivation, it 

 is really a handsome flower, sporting into varieties of 

 white, purple, pink, parti-colored, etc. Hardy annual; 

 two to three feet high. 



Centaurea, cyanus, single mixed 5 



Balloon Vine. 



