D. M. FERRY & CO'SDESCRIPTIVE 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 afford 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 especial- 

 ly for the season in which they are 

 sold. We do not send out packets a 

 second time. Our traveling 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 

 is ever on sale a second season. 

 Therefore you can be just as sure 

 of the condition of seeds offered in 

 a newly opened "commission" box 

 as of those received directly 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 directly behind 

 them the most complete organiza- 

 tion, the greatest experience and the 

 finest facilities ever devoted to the 

 production and distribution of gar- 

 den seeds. 



EXPERIENCE. Our splendid 

 organization enables us to special- 

 ize. In a smaller seed house which 

 includes 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 atten- 

 tion. 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 espe- 

 cially fitted by nature and training 

 for the duties they perform. More- 

 over we have been supplying garden 

 seeds for sixty-three years. Multi- 

 ply our huge annual volume by the 

 time we have been seed merchants 

 and you can readily see we have had 

 the greatest experience of any gar- 

 den seed producers now in business. 



In a word, we have every fa- 

 cility 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 



BEST IS ALWAYS THE CHEAPEST; RELIABLE SEEDS CANNOT EE staunch friends. 



AFFORDED AT HALF PRICE 



