114 I). M. FERRY & (JO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



WISTARIA. 



One of the most beautiful and rapid growing of hardy 

 climbers, growing, when well established, in good soil, 

 from fifteen to twenty-five feet in a season. Frequently 

 blooms both in spring and fall; the pale blue pea shaped 

 flowers are borne in long, drooping clusters similar in- 

 size and shape to a bunch of grapes. It thrives best in 

 a light, rich soil, and should be trained against a south 

 wall or veranda. Seeds should be sown in mellow loam 

 early in the spring; if a green-house or hot-bed is avail- 

 able, start in winter, and when plants are a foot high, 

 transplant into situations where they are to remain. 

 Wistaria, magnifica 20 



XERANTHEMIIM. 



Of neat, compact habit, free flowering, and of the 

 easiest cultivation. The leaves are covered with a silvery 

 down, and the flowers are pure white, deep purple and 

 yellow, single and double. If gathered before fully 

 opened, and dried in the shade, they will retain their 

 beauty for years. They make fine winter bouquets alone 

 or mixed with grasses. Sow in spring and thin to one 

 foot apart. Hardy annual; one foot high. 

 Xeranthemum, mixed 10 



ZEA MAI^E- (Striped Japanese 

 Corn). 



An ornamental foliage plant, of much beauty. It is 

 a species of corn, with large foliage, the leaves being 

 beautifully striped with white and green. Half-hardy 

 annual, from Japan; six feet high. 



Zea Japonica, fol. variegatis, striped foliage 5 



ZINNIA. 



A very showy plant, with large, double flowers, which, 

 when fully expanded, form hemispherical heads, become 

 densely imbricated, and might easily be mistaken for 

 dwarf Dahlias. The colors run through all the shades 

 of carmine, lilac, scarlet, purple, crimson, yellow, to pure 

 white. If any single blossoms appear, they should be at 

 once pulled up. Sow the seed early in spring in open 

 ground and transplant to one and a half feet apart, in 

 good, rich soil, or start under glass for early blooming. 

 Half-hardy annual; one and a half feet high. 



By careful selection and several years' 1 cultiva- 

 tion, the European florists have obtained the fol- 

 lowing distinct varieties of this valuable plant. 

 The seeds we offer can be entirely relied upon to 

 reproduce the differe7it colors, almost without 

 sporting. 



Zinnia, double, carmine 10 



" scarlet 10 



" purple 10 



" crimson 10 



" orange 10 



" lilac .10 



" deep scarlet 10 



" deep purple 10 



" alba plenissima, pure white 10 



" choice mixed, very fine 10 



" " mixed . 5 



Zinnia, Double. 



Zinnia, Haageana. 

 Zinnia, Haageana, fl. pi., a perfectly double variety, 

 of deep orange color, finely margined with 

 bright golden yellow; beautifully imbricated, 



representing a depressed globular cone 10 



" Darwini, fl. pi., a distinct class of Zinnias of 

 most beautiful form and every conceivable 

 shade of color. There are four classes known 

 as nana compacta, major, pyramidalis and 

 vitata, about twelve colors in each class. 

 The seed we offer comprises a mixture of all 



the above classes 20 



" Pompon, fl. pi., mixed, a beautiful new strain 

 of this popular flower in which all the colors 

 peculiar to the Zinnia are found. The flow- 

 ers are about half the size of the ordinary- 

 Zinnia ; very double, and are very bright, 

 showy and attractive 15 



See Phge 112 For NEM SMEET PEHS, 



