D. M. FERRY & CO., DETROIT, MICH. 



CARNATION 



Marguerite 



(Diaiithus 

 Caryophylhis). 



'•Carnation," "Pink," Clove Pink,''' "Floi'ists' Pink" are names ap- 

 plied by different people to the same or to different plants of several 

 species as well as to hybrids between them. They are all easily grown 

 from seed and very free blooming, tlie flowers being bright colored 

 and with a most delicious clove-like fragrance. Some of the varieties 

 are very desirable for the professional florist and make fine house 

 plants for the amateur. Otliers do best in the open ground and are 

 among the most desirable of garden plants. Half hardy perennial. 



Large Flowering Carnations Best Suited 

 for Pot Culture 



These are the sorts most grown by florists who are constantly striving 



to produce new varieties. While choice varieties are propagated by 



cutting, planters may get some just as good from the seed we offer and 



a large proportion double and very beautiful. 



Double Perpetual Flowered Mixed. An exceedingly beautiful variety 

 producing very double flowers of various shades and colors. Seed 

 saved from choicest double flowers Pkt. 25c. 



Fine Double Selves. Seeds from named varieties grown in the open 

 ground and likely to give some flowers fully equal to the best green- 

 house sorts Pkt. 10c. 



Fine Double Striped. Seed from fine named striped varieties. Pkt. 15c. 



Choicest White Ground. Seed from choice, large flowered, named 

 varieties, with nearly white petals bordered or tinted with red or 

 purple. Sure to give large and beautiful flowers Pkt. 35c. 



Extra Choice Double Mixed. Seed from an immense collection of 

 choice French, German, Italian and English named sorts. Certain 

 to produce a large proportion of double and finely formed and colored 

 flowers in almost endless variety of shades and markings. .Pkt. 15c. 



Choice Double Mixed. A mixture of all colors and types Pkt. 10c. 



Picotee, Extra Fine Double Mixed. Extra fine seed from named va- 

 rieties, spotted and splashed; sure to give flowers of splendid quality. 



Pkt. 25c. 



Varieties of Carnations adapted to both Pot and Outdoor Culture 



For outdoor culture a rich compost is indispensable to the 

 which a congenial soil is of so much importance. 

 Early Double Snow White. A splendid sort for either pot 

 culture or the garden. The plants are vigorous, erect and 

 bushy in growth; come into flower very early and furnish 

 abundant bloom for a long time. The flowers are large, 

 double, clear white and wonderfully fragrant. One of 

 the most profitable plants for florists but should also have 



a place in every private garden Pkt. 25c. 



Marguerite. The plants of this wonderfully fine strain may 

 be made to bloom in four months. The flowers are large, 

 double, very fragrant and appear in very attractive 

 shades. One of the best "pinks" in cultivation. Pkt. 5c. 



production of fine carnations; there is scarcely any plant to 



Double Dwarf Vienna Mixed. Large flowered and comes 

 into bloom early, producing flowers of many colors and 

 beautiful markings Pkt. 10c. 



Double Red Grenadin. Plants a little smaller and less 

 erect than the White Grenadin but come into bloom a 

 little earlier and are fully as florif erous. Flowers double, 

 fragrant and of rich deep red color Pkt. 15c. 



Double Florists' Pink. (Phmiariufi Scoticus fl. pi.). This 

 is the double form of common garden or clove pink and 

 though so common is one of the best of our hardy garden 

 perennials Pkt. 25c. 



Castor Bean 



Celosia 



Tall majestic plants for lawns, with leaves of glossy green, brown, 

 /¥>• • \ or bronzed metaUic hue and long spikes of scarlet, or of green, 



( IxlCinilS ) prickly fruit. Makes a rapid, vigorous growth in rich soil. Ten- 

 ^ ^ der annual; six to flf teen feet high. 



Zanzibar iensis. A comparatively new species of wonderfully vigorous growth, the plants growing from ten to fifteen 

 feet high. L,eaves have a brilliant lustre, measure about thirty inches across, and in different plants range from 



bright green with green stems to deep bronze with dark red stems. Mixed Varieties Pkt. 5c. 



Sanguineus. (Tricolor). Blood red stalks with red venation in leaves; 



height about six feet Pkt. 5c. 



Castor Bean, Mixed Pkt. 5c. 



A class of plants having colored foliage 

 and in which the innumerable small flowers 

 and seed vessels together with their sup- 

 ports form a very brilliantly colored mass, 

 sometimes gracefully arranged like plumes and sometimes more 

 dense, being corrugated and frilled at the edge like a cock's comb. 

 They form the gayest possible decoration, retaining their 

 brilliant coloring for a long time after being cut. Very com- 

 monly grown out of doors but also adapted for the green- 

 house or conservatory. Half hardy annuals. Plant in light, 

 rich soil and give plenty of moisture. 

 Pyramidalis plumosa mixed. The plant is over two feet high 

 and is covered with long, brilliantly colored and gracefully 



formed plumes in red, yellow or violet Pkt. 5c. 



Triumph of the Exposition. Plant of pyramidal form, bearing 

 many exceedingly graceful, feather-like spikes of intensely 



brilliant crimson color. Height about two feet Pkt. 10c. 



Variegated. A strain between the plumosa and cockscomb 

 types in w^hich the plumes are broadened at the top into many 

 small, comb-like forms and are variegated and striped in red 



and yellow Pkt. 10c. 



Japan. The plant grows to the height of two and a half or 

 three feet and is covered with spikes or combs which are 

 very flnely cut and of brilUant crimson color Pkt. 10c. 



Dwarf and Tree Cockscomb Types 

 Qiant Empress. The beautiful dwarf plant has dark red leaves 



and forms immense bright, crimson combs .Pkt. 10c. 



Glasgow Prize. (President Thiers). The whole plant seems to 



be formed into an immense comb, densely corrugated and of 



a very brilliant, deep, purplish red Pkt. 10c. 



Dwarf Rose. Large rose colored combs " 10c. 



Dwarf Yellow. Large yellow combs " 10c. 



Dwarf Mixed. A mixture of best dwarf growing sorts. " 5c. 



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Castor Bean, Zanzibariensis 



