D. M. Ferry ^ Go's 



Seed Annual 



:: 1905 :: 



HIS is an age of progress in gardening as well as in other professions. There is an increasing 

 demand for better vegetables and flowers. Improved methods of fertilization and cultiva- 

 tion and multiplied facilities for marketing are contributing much to satisfy this demand. 

 Nevertheless, no amount of care in cultivation or other after-skill will count if you start 

 wrong. If inferior or worthless seeds are planted failure will be the outcome. 



The successful gardener, before ordering his supply of seeds for the season, makes a 



careful study of one or more reliable seed catalogues. He has probably learned from 



experience that there are two classes of seedsmen represented more or less accurately by 



their respective catalogues. 



One class offer each year, in bewildering numbers, novelties from the four quarters of the globe 



which they claim are destined to eclipse all similar varieties heretofore known. Such catalogues the 



gardener must regard humorously if he considers them at all, their misstatements cannot be taken 



seriously. Only those who enjoy being humbugged buy seeds thus described. 



There is another class of seedsmen, dealers who are constantly on the lookout for something of value 

 to add to their lists. By their successful efforts to improve certain varieties they have become special- 

 ists and they keep closely in touch with experts in this and in foreign countries. New varieties of 

 proven and distinct merit are promptly included in their lists. Their constant and untiring efforts are 

 also directed to maintaining in purity and type the many well known standard varieties on which the 

 gardener must rely for his principal crops. Their catalogues are not exciting reading but the informa- 

 tion given is valuable because it is true. It has always been the aim of D. M. Ferry & Co. that no cata- 

 logue in this class should rank higher than their Seed Annual. Accuracy in description, faithfulness in 

 illustration and careful attention to each subject treated make it a valuable guide and book of reference 

 to the progressive gardener. If he is wise he will plant Ferry's seeds and insure success. 



OUR TERMS ARE STRICTLY CASH WITH THE ORDER. 



"We do not send C. O. D., as the cost of collecting return 

 charges is quite an unnecessary item of expense, and the 

 prices being given, we can conceive of no necessity to war- 

 rant goods being so sent. 



HOW TO SEND MONEY. Remittances may be made at 

 OUR RISK by any of the following methods, viz.; Postal, 

 Money Order, Draft on New York or Chicago, or Express 

 Company's Money Order. 



The rates charged for Postal Money Orders and Express 

 Money Orders are now so low that these are the best ways 

 to remit. We will bear the expense of sending money in 

 either of these ways. Deduct the cost of the order from 

 amount sent. Express Money Orders can be obtained at 

 ALL offices of the principal Express Companies. They are 

 •cheap and absolutely safe. 



When Money Orders cannot be obtained letters contain- 

 ing money should always be registered. Money in ordinary 

 letters is unsafe. If currency is sent by express, the charges 

 should be prepaid, and if local checks are used, they must 

 be certified. 



t FREE OF POSTAGE OR EXPRESS CHARGES. Packets, 



* Ounces, Two Ounces, Quarter Pounds or Pounds, ordered 



at list prices, will be sent free by mail or express. 



Customers ordering enough for a freight shipment, 100 



pounds or more, or desiring to pay their own express chai-ges, 



may deduct 10 cents per pound from prices of this catalogue 



on all seeds quoted by the pound or less. 



PINTS AND QUARTS. Pints, Quarts and Four Quarts, 

 ordered at list prices, fifteen cents per quart, ten cents 

 per pint, must be added for postage or express charges, 

 and they will then be sent free. 



ONE=FOURTH BUSHEL, BUSHEL AND HUNDRED 

 POUND LOTS. Where One-Fourth Bushel, Bushel or 

 Hundred Pound lots are ordered, we deliver free at depot or 

 express office in Detroit, Mich., the freight or express 

 charges to be paid by the party ordering. 



i^^ Where perishable or other goods are ordered to be 

 sent by freight or express to such great distances that the 

 cost of transportation will nearly or quite equal the value of 

 the goods, we must decline to ship unless purchasers remit 

 us, in addition to the price of goods, sufficient funds to pre- 

 pay transportation charges. When this requirement is not 

 conap'lied with, we reserve the right of declining the order 

 and returning money to the person ordering. 



SEEDS BY MEASURE. One-fourth bushel and over 

 sold at bushel rates; four quarts and over up to one- 

 quarter bushel sold at four-quart rates; less than four 

 QUARTS sold at quart or pint rates. 



SEEDS BY WEIGHT. We supply half pound and over 

 at POUND rates; less than half pound lots are charged at 

 ounce, two-ounce or quarter-pound rates; 25 lbs. and 

 over at 100 lb. rates when quoted. 



BAGS. To every order for one-quarter bushel and up- 

 wards, to the amount of two bushels, 20 cents must be added 

 for a new bag in which to ship. 



SEEDS IN PACKETS. We offer the following induce- 

 ments to those wishing to purchase seeds in packets. Select 

 packets to the value of $1.15 and send us $1.00; for $2.35 send 

 |3.00; for $3.60 send $3.00; for $4.85 send $4.00; for $6.15 send 

 $5.00; for $12.50 send $10.00; for $26.00 send $20.00. The seeds 

 will be sent by mail, postpaid, but these low rates apply to 

 seeds in packets only, and at catalogue prices, and not 

 to seeds by weight or measure. 



NAME AND ADDRESS SHOULD ALWAYS BE GIVEN. 



We frequently receive letters containing money and orders, 

 which we cannot fill because the sender has failed to sign 

 HIS NAME or the P. O. ADDRESS is Omitted, and the post mark 

 being blurred, we are unable to fill the order, no matter how 

 much we desire to do so. Use our Order Sheet and Envelope 

 whenever you can, filling out the blank and signing your 

 name and you will have no cause to censure us. 



GUARANTEE. Complaints made that seeds are not good, 

 should quite as often be attributed to other causes as to the 

 quality of the seeds. There are hundreds of contingencies 

 continually arising to prevent the best seeds always giving 

 satisfaction, such as sowing too deep, too shallow, in too wet 

 or too dry soil; insects of all descriptions destroying the 

 plants as soon as or before they appear; wet weather, cold 

 weather, frosts, chemical changes in the seeds induced by 

 temperature, etc. For the above reasons it is impracticable 

 to guarantee seeds under all circumstances. 



We give no warranty, express or implied, as to description, 

 purity, productiveness, or any other matter of any seeds we 

 send out, and we will not be in any way responsible for the 

 crop. If the purchaser does not accept the goods on these 

 terms they ai'e at once to be returned. 



D. M. Ferry & Co. 



Detroit, Mich., January 1, 1905. 



