FERRY 



DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 



PETUNIA 



JflHj ff/i Petunias are unsurpassed for massing in beds. 



^&J V&z<^m ^% i Their richness of color, duration of bloom and 



\%g|a^ easy culture will always make them popular. 



The modern improved varieties are very choice, hav- 

 \\g}% ing been -wonderfully brought up from the same 



species that were grown thirty years ago: 



The full, double petunias do not produce seeds. To 

 procure double flowers one must use the seeds saved 

 from single flowers which have been carefully fertil- 

 ized by hand with pollen from the double ones. The 

 seed we offer is the result of careful hybridization 

 and can be depended upon to give as large a propor- 

 tion of double flowers as any. 



In some strains the flowers are very large, measur- 

 ing four to five inches across; in others, they are 

 deeply fringed; still others have star-like markings 

 radiating from the throat and extending nearly or 

 quite to the outer margin of the blossom; again, 

 others have fuU, double flowers. The colors range 

 from white to deep red-purple and are variously 

 ;, striped and barred. 



Plant in a warm, open, sunny place. Seeds may be sown 

 directly in the open ground or the plants may be started in 

 m' pots indoors for early results. The plants are tender and 



■\ should not be trusted in the open until settled weather. Thin 



Vk to eighteen inches apart. When well started they grow almost 



as easily as weeds. The plants begin to bloom when very small 

 and continue until cut off by frost. Tender perennial, bloom- 

 ing the first year. 



Petunias are easily grown under glass in winter. The best 

 method is to sow seeds in late summer or early fall and grow 

 stocky plants in pots, but old plants can be lifted on the 

 approach of cold weather, cut back and taken inside for winter 

 bloom. 



Single Dwarf Compact. {Inimitable Dwarf) Bushy plants only 

 about eight inches high, covered with small flowers, generally 

 striped or blotched. In "many the markings are as beautifully star 

 shaped as in the strain offered as "Star" petunia Pkt. 15c. 



Countess of Ellesmere. Deep rose, white throat; very small. " 5c. 



Nyctaginiflora. Pure white, very fragrant; very floriferous. " 5c. 



Finest Striped and Blotched. Oz' 90c " 5c. 



Fine Mixed. An excellent variety of markings. Oz. 50c " 5c. 



Double Mixed. A good percentage of double flowers " 20c. 



LARGE FLOWERING PETUNIAS 



Large Flowered Mixed. Very large: some striped Pkt. 10c. 



Choicest Large Flowered Mixed. ft Oz. $1.00 " 15c. 



Fringed and Stained Mixed. Very attractive " 20c. 



Superbissima Mixed. Flowers of immense size, superbly colored with throats 

 beautifully veined. We have carefully compared other strains sold as 

 "Giants of California," etc., and have found none superior and many of them 

 not equal to our strain of this magnificent variety Pkt. 25c. 



Brilliant Rose. Large flowers of very bright, yet delicate and exceptionally 

 attractive rose color. One of the finest varieties in cultivation and comes 

 true from seed Pkt. 25c. 



General Dodds. This is a strain of petunia producing large, single flowers 

 that are noticeable because of their exceedingly rich, dark purple color 

 which is really one of the most striking among petunias. A vigorous and 

 very persistent bloomer and there are few garden plants that will make so 

 satisfactory a display Pkt. 10c. 



Grandiflora Robusta, fl. pi. Dwarf, of robust growth, forming a compact, up- 

 right, branched bush about ten inches in height and fourteen inches in 

 width, with large flowers, many double and in all shades of colors existing 

 in petunias. The latest variety to bloom Pkt. 25c. 



Double Fringed Brilliant Rose. Large, exceedingly double and fringed flowers 

 of most brilliant rose color. Very desirable Pkt. 25c. 



Extra Double Fringed. Many colors; beautifully fringed Pkt. 25c. 



