D. M. FERRY 



GO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 



STANDARD SEEDS 



"AT THE STORE AROUND THE CORNER" 



ACCESSIBILITY. Although we fill many thousands of mail orders every season our chief means of 

 distributing Ferry's seeds is through the hands of first class local dealers throughout the United States and 

 Canada. There is scarcely a responsible retail merchant anywhere that cannot supply your needs fully and 

 immediately with the minimum amount of trouble and the maximum amount of pleasure and profit in the 

 results. Market gardeners and others planting large areas have come to depend confidently 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 gardener trade increases every year and we seldom lose a customer. 

 The professionals who make their living 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, be 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 possesses 

 genuine intrinsic merit. Ferry's seeds have become a household necessity 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 afTord 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 

 travehng 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 condi- 

 tion of seeds cffered 

 in a newly opened 

 "commission" box 

 as of those receiv- 

 ed di r e c 1 1 y 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 di- 

 rectly behind them 

 the most complete 

 organization, the 

 greatest experience 

 and the finest facili- 

 ties ever devoted to 

 the production and 

 distribution of gar- 



THE BEST IS ALWAYS THE CHEAPEST; RELIABLE SEEDS CANNOT BE den seeds. 



AFFORDED AT HALF PRICE 



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

 cludes 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 supply- 

 ing garden seeds for sixty-five years. Multiply our huge annual volume by the time we have been seed_ mer- 

 chants 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. 



