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D. M. FERRY & CO., DETROIT, MICH. 



CINERARIA 



Cinerarias are easily grown from 

 seed, require little heat, are free 

 blooming and give brilliant flowers 

 in a variety of colors. Greenhouse perennials which can be 

 planted out in summer. They thrive best in a mixture of loam 

 and peat. One to two feet high. 



Maritima candidissima (sometimes called Dusty Miller). Cultiva- 

 ted for its handsome, silvery white foliage; very ornamental as a 

 decorative pot plant or for bedding purposes .Pkt. lOcts 



Hybrida, choicest mixed, from best large flowering varieties. 



Pkt. 2 Sets 



Hybrida, flore pleno, the flowers are perfectly and evenly double 

 and in great variety of colors Pkt. 35cts 



Hybrida, very dwarf, large flowered, growing only eight inches 

 high. Blooms profusely; many colors; desirable Pkt. 25cts 



Hybrida, single dwarf white. This is perhaps the finest sort among 

 Cinerarias. The plant is about one and one-half feet high and 

 covered with large, beautiful white flowers having purplish cen- 

 ters. An abundant bloomer in early spring and excellent for 

 Easter decoration Pkt. 25cts 



Beautiful, hardy annuals from California, with 



rose colored, white and purple flowers, in delicate 



but very brilliant shades. The plants are about eighteen inches 



high and profuse bloomers. Mixed double Pkt. 5cts 



Well known and universally admired climb- 

 ers, some of the varieties being remarkable 

 for the size and beauty of their blossoms and others for their 

 gracefulness. Fine for covering arbors, verandas, etc., as they 

 cling readily to almost any object. Most of the kinds are hardy, 

 herbaceous perennials, but some little protection in northern 

 latitudes through winter, is advised. 



Virginiana {Virgin's Bower). A rapid climber, growing 

 twenty feet in a single season. The blossoms are small, 

 white and in large clusters Pkt. lOcts 



Flammula, a slender but vigorous climber, from ten to fif- 

 teen feet high, with clusters of small, white, fragrant 

 flowers in August and September. Sometimes called 

 Sweet Virgin's Bower Pkt. Sets 



Mixed, furnishes varieties having clusters of purple and 

 white flowers Pkt. lOcts 



CLARKIA 



CLEMATIS 



Cineraria 



Hybrida. 



COLEUS 



Clianthus Dampleri 



{Glory Pea). A green- 

 house plant bearing 

 clusters of very curiously shaped and intensely brilliantly 

 colored flowers, scarlet with black center. Plants do not 

 bear transplanting and should be kept rather dry. 



Pkt. aocts 



Cobcea Scandens i^^XCfsZif tS 



and large, bell-shaped flowers, green at first, but rapidly 

 changing to a beautiful, deep violet-blue. A well estab- 

 lished plant will run about thirty feet in a season, covering 

 a large veranda with handsorne foliage and beautiful 

 flowers. Tender perennial Pkt. 5cts 



COCKSCOMB— ('^ee Celosia). 



COIX LACHRYMA— (See Job's Tears). 



COLUMBINE 



Probably the best known and most 



popular of ornamental foliage plants. 



Leaves are of many shades of color 



and have a nch, velvety appearance of extraordinary 



beauty. No lawn should be without these decorative 



plants. Tender perennial. 



Finest Hybrids mixed, extra choice Pkt. 25cts 



Large Leaved, mixed, e.ctra choice, certain to produce 



plants of exceeding beautv Pkt. 35cts 



Large Leaved, Copper Colored. This coleus is of great 

 merit and is worthy of a prominent place in greenhouse 

 and garden. Leaves large and plants grow about two feet 

 high. Foliage beautifully variegated in shades of rich red, 

 bronze and copper color and quite distinct Pkt. 35cts 



{Aquilegia) . Every well 

 regulated garden has a 

 space devoted to hardy 

 perennials, and no bed of perennials would be complete 

 without a due proportion of columbines. They are of the 

 easiest culture, and when once established, will furnish 

 for many years a magnificent display of the handsomest 

 flowers each spring and summer. The beds should be kept 

 clear of weeds and given each year a liberal dressing of 

 well rotted manure. Hardy herbaceous perennials; two 

 to three feet high. 

 Coerulea hybrida, double, a vigorous growing, very hand- 

 some variety with blue and white flowers Pkt. lOcts 



Calif ornica hybrida, one of the handsomest of all the colum- 

 bines, having orange, red and yellow flowers. . .Pkt. lOcts 

 Verv«neana foL variegatis, plants variegated leaved and 



producing double rose colored blossoms Pkt. lOcts 



Mixed double, best and finest colors " Sets 



CONVOLVULUS MAJOR— O^ee Morning Glory). 



CONVOLVULUS MINOR ^^SU 



Glory). Dwarf plants of trailing, branching habit, 

 each covering a space about two feet in diameter. At 

 mid-day they are completely covered with a mass of 

 pure white and brilliant, many colored blossoms which 

 remain open in clear weather till evening. Half hardy 

 annual; one foot high. 

 Mixed Pkt. Sets 



COREOPSIS— (S'ee Calliopsis). 



COSMOS 



Cosmos, 



A very effective, autumn 

 flowering plant. Quite 

 hardy and rapid grow- 

 ing, forming bush-like 

 plants five to eight feet high and covered with large, 

 single, dahlia-like flowers. Should be started in this 

 latitude in March and transplanted to open ground 

 about June 1st. 

 Hybrida, large white. This variety produces a pro- 

 fusion of large, pure white flowers, which, being grace- 

 fully poised on long stems are useful for decorative 



purposes Pkt. Sets 



Hybrida, Giant mixed " Sets 



EARLY FLOWERING COSMOS. We have secured an early flowering strain 

 which is sure to come into bloom before frost, even when started out- 

 doors, and will give a great profusion of bloom until late in the autumn. 



Dawn. An early flowering strain in which all the flowers are white. 



Pkt. Sets 



Early Flowering, mixed. Comparatively dwarf plants, producing both 

 white and colored flowers, coming into bloom much earlier than the 

 giant forms Pkt. Sets 



CUCURRITA— C-See Gourd). 



