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D. M. FERRY & GO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



Salpiglossis 



Salvia 



Very showy bedding or border plants 

 with richly colored, funnel-shaped 

 _ _ flowers which are borne on long 



graceful stems. The flowers of purple, scarlet, crimson, yellow, 

 buff, blue or almost black are beautifully veined or penciled and 

 are excellent for cut flowers. They are easily grown and are 

 most desirable for beds or borders. 



For early blooming seed may be started indoors as early as 

 the middle of ]March and the young plants set out in the garden 

 one foot apart, or seed may be sown outdoors after settled warm 

 weather. Blooms from August to October. Half hardy annual: 

 about two feet high. 

 Fine Mixed. Hybrids. Easily grown large, long stemmed flowers, 



in many beautiful shades and markings. Oz. 50c Pkt. 10c. 



Large Flowering Mixed. A mixture of improved dwarf, very 

 large ilowering sorts, more compact than ordinary varieties and 

 with much larger more richly colored flowers Pkt. 10c. 



Salvia 



{Flowering Sage) Among the most brilliantly 

 colored of garden flowers and extremely 

 useful for bedding; also valuable for pot 

 culture and cutting. Blooms are borne in 

 long spikes well above the foliage and are of fiery red. crimson 

 or blue, continuing in flower a long time. The densely filled flower 

 spikes are often eight to ten inches long and include thirty or 

 more ttibe-like florets, one to two inches in length. 



Start early in heat and transplant into light soil one to two 

 feet apart: or seed can be sown outdoors after danger from frost 

 is past. Tender perennial, but blooms the fir.st season; height 

 one and one-half to three feet. 



Splendens. Sold also as '' Splendens Bonfire." The large, bril- 

 liant scarlet flowers are in very striking contrast with the rich, 

 dark green background of dense foliage. This variety is most 

 generaUy used in parks and on extensive lawns, as it is more 

 vigorous than the dwarf varieties. One of the most distinct 

 and effective bedding plants. Two and one-half to three feet 



high. Oz. $2.00 Pkt. 10c. 



Fireball. Many strains of Salvia Splendens have been offered 

 under different names claiming they are larger flowered or 

 . more floriferous than the old type. We have found none more 

 valuable than this strain in which the plant is more unifoi'mly 

 dwarf, and comes into bloom earlier than most sorts and 

 remains covered with brilliant red flower spikes a remarkably 



long time. Height of plant about two feet Pkt. 10c. 



Patens. One of the finest blue flowers known: not as well suited 



. for bedding as the other varieties of salvia, but very attrac- 



""tive in the mixed border or in the greenhouse. Height of plant, 



about one and one-half to two feet Pkt. 1 5c. 



SCAB\OSA— {See 2Iourning Bride) 

 SCARLET FLAX— {See Linum) 



Scarlet Runner Beans ^u^??i?„^bXlelrf,S 



sprays of brilliant scarlet pea shaped blossoms. Used either 

 as a snap or shell beau for eating as well as being desirable 

 for ornamental purposes. Seed luay be planted out of doors 

 as soon as danger of frost is past. Vines ten to twelve 

 feet high Pkt. 10c. 



Qr>Vki'70i-kf]-tiie Retusus Trimaculatus. Also known 

 ^CillZdnLllUb as Butterfly Flower or Poor Man's 

 Orchid. Dainty compact branching plants with finely cut 

 foliage, covered when in bloom with clusters or spikes of 

 brilliantly colored butterfly-Jike flowers. Valuable for 

 garden decoration or pot culture. Petals bright yello^\- with 

 margins and tube of carmine or purple-rose, shading from 

 lighter to darker shades. 



The seed may be sown outdoors after danger of frost 

 is past, where the plants are to remain; or start inside and 

 transplant Avhen weather is suitable. Hardy annual: about 

 twenty inches high. . .' \ Pkt. 15c. 



SENSITIVE PLANT— (-SVe Mimosa PucUca) 



bmilax i!^ 



'.Mijr.sipliijllum ubparayoideb) No twining 

 pla'nt in cultivation surpasses this in 

 graceful beauty of foliage. Intlispensable 

 to florists for table and house decoration. The hard texture 

 of its small glossy green leaves permits the long delicate 

 sprays of foliage to be kept without T\iltiiig se\eral days 

 after being cut. 



Planted in spring it makes a fine pot plant for fall and 

 ^^ inter. Tht^ seetl germinates , very slowly. The process 

 may be hastened some\\hat by soaking the see<l in hot 

 Abater for ten hours before planting, btit e\en then it is 

 often six or eight weeks before the plants make their 

 appearance. Tender perennial cliiuber. ten feet high. 

 Oz. oUc Pkt. 10c. 



Salpiglossis 



