M. FERRY & GO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



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CARNATION 



"Carnation," "Pink," "Clove Pink," "Florists' Pink," are names ap- 

 plied by different people to the same or to different plants of sev.eral 

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

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

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

 are very desirable for the professional florist and make fine house 

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

 among the most desii'able of garden plants. Half hardy perennial. 



Large Flowering Carnations Best Suited for 

 Pot Culture 



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



to produce new varieties. '^\liile choice varieties are propagated by I 



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. 85c. 



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 fiowered, named 

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

 purple. Sure to give lai'ge 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 varie- 

 ties, petals spotted and splashed ; sure to give flowers of splendid 

 quality in large proportion Pkt. 85c. 



Varieties of Carnations adapted to both Pot and Outdoor Culture 



For outdoor culture a rich compost is indispensable to the production of fine carnations; there is scarcely any plant to 

 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. 35c. 



Carnation Marguerite 



Marguerite. The plants of this wonderfully fine strain may 

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

 double, very fragrant and appear in very attractive shades. 

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



Double Dwarf Vienna Mixed. Large flowered and comes . 

 into bloom early, producing flowers of many colors and 

 beautiful markings Pkt. 10c. 



Double Red Qrenadin. Plants a little smaller and less 

 erect than the "White Grenadin bvit come into bloom a 

 little earlier and are fully as florlferous. Flowers double, 

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



Double Florists' Pink. {Plumarius Scoticus fl. pi.) This 

 is the double form of common garden, grass or clove pink 

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

 garden perennials r Pkt. 35c. 



Tall majestic plants for lawns, with leaves of glossy gi'een, brown, 



m ^ o^^XY* l^ ^x #^ w^ /n* • \ or bronzed metallic hue and long spikes of scarlet, or of green, 



%^_^^ ^ t,\rr I *^C ?CH1. (ixlCinUS) pi'ickly fruit. Makes a rapd, vigorous growth in rich soil. Ten- 



Celosia 



api 



der annual; six to fifteen feet high. 

 Zanzibariensis. A comparatively new species of wonderfully vigorovis growth, the plants growing from ten to fifteen 

 feet high. Leaves 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 " 5c. 



A class of plants having colored foliage and in 

 which the innumerable small flowers and seed 

 vessels together with their supports form a 

 verybrilliantly colored mass, sometimes grace- 

 fully arranged like plumes and sometimes more dense, being corru- 

 gated and frilled at the edge like a cock's comb. They form the 

 gayest possible decoration, retaining their brilliant coloring for a 

 longtime after being cut. Commonly grown out of doors but 

 also adapted for the greenhouse 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 pyramidial 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 which the plumes are broadened at the top; variegat- 

 ed and striped in red, and yellow Pkt. 10c. 



Japan. Plant grows two and a half or three feet high and cov 



ered with spikes which are very finely crested and of brilliant 



colors usually variegated crimson and deep yellow. Pkt. 10c. 



DWARF AND TREE COCKSCOMB TYPES 



Giant Empress. The beautiful dwarf plant 'has dark red leaves 



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



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

 be formed into an immense comb, densely corrugated and of 



a very brilliant, deep, purplish red Pkt. 1 Oc. 



Dwarf Rose. Large rose-colored combs " 10c. 



Dwarf Yellow. Large yellow combs " 10c. 



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



Castor Bean, Zanzibariensis 



