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D. M . FERRY & GO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 



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"m^ ■ PETUNIA 



't I Petunias are unsurpassed for massing in beds. 



'f Their richness of color, duration of bloom and 



/ "-'^SiPSirx'^M^ easy culture will always render them popular. 



/ / S\£iS. %SjS k2*|^ The modern improved varieties are very choice 



'xf^^/) plants, having been wonderfully brought up from 



K§)( the same species which were in use twenty-five years 



fs)- ago. 



' '^ The full, double pettmias do not produce seeds, so 



^ ^jmw/^' that to procure double flowers we must use the seed 



<%= ^^WJ^ — of single flowers which have been carefiilly fertilized 



by pollen from the double ones. The seed we offer is 



^^ "^56^\^ from the result of careful hybridization and can be 



depended upon for giving as large a proportion of 



double flowers as any. 



In some strains the flowers are very large, measur- 

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

 deeply fringed; still others have star-hke marking? 

 radiating from the throat and extending nearly or 

 quite to the outer margin of the blossom; again, 

 others have full, double flowers. The colors range 

 from white to deep red-purple and are variously 

 striped and barred. 

 ■m^^\\ wf\^^t Plant in a warm, open, sunny place. Seeds may be sown 



|||k* directly in the open ground or the plants may be started in 



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



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



-^m I to eighteen inches apart. When well started they grow almost 



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



\\', and continue until cut off by frost. Tender perennial, blooming 



\V^M/)',i the first year. 



,//; V 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 



'^^.^mm. approach of cold weather, cut back and taken inside for winter 



bloom. 



'\j^C^ Single Dwarf Compact. {Inimitable Divarf). Bushy plants 



"^ %-0^ s^^ to eight inches high, covered with beautifully striped or 



'^ blotched flowers. In many of them the markings are as 



beautifully star shaped as in the strains offered as Star 



petunias Pkt. 15c. 



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



Finest Striped and Blotched * ' 5c. 



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



Fine Mixed. An excellent variety of good flowers " 5c. 



Double Mixed •' 30c. 



LARGE FLOWERING PETUNIAS 



Large Flowered Mixed Pkt. 10c. 



Choicest Large Flowered Mixed " 15c. 



Fringed and Stained Mixed. Large flowered; very desirable " 30c. 



Superbissima Mixed. The flowers are of immense size, superbly colored and 

 the open throats are beautifully veined. We have carefully compared other 

 ^strains sold as Giants of California, etc. and have found none superior and most 

 of them not equal to our strain of this magnificent variety Pkt. 35c. 



Brilliant Rose. Large, beautiful flowers of the brightest, yet delicate and very 

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

 from seed Pkt. 35c. 



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. We recommend General 

 Dodds as a vigorous and very persistent bloomer and flunk there are very few 

 garden plants that will make so good and satisfactory a display Pkt. 10c. 



Qrandiflora 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. 35c. 



Double Fringed Brilliant Rose. Bears large exceedingly double and fringed 

 flowers of the most brilliant rose color. Very desirable Pkt. 35c. 



Extra Double Fringed. Many colors; beautifully fringed; a good percentage 

 double Pkt. 35c. 



