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



Pet 



unia 



Petunias are unsurpassed for massing in beds. Their rich- 

 ness of color, duration of bloom and easy culture will always 

 render them popular. The modern improved varieties are 

 very choice plants, having been wonderfully brought up 

 from the same species which were in use twenty-five years 

 ago. The full, double petunias do not produce seeds, so that 

 to procure double flowers we must use the seed of single 

 flowers which have been carefully fertilized by pollen from 

 the double ones. 



The seed we offer is from the result of careful hybridiza- 

 tion, and can be depended upon for giving as large a propor- 

 tion of double flowers as any. 



In some strains the flowers are very large, measuring four 

 or 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 full, 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 

 pots indoors for early results. The plants are tender and 

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

 to eighteen inches apart. When well started, they grow 

 almost as easily as weeds. They begin to bloom when very 

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

 blooming the first year. 



Petunias are easily grown tmder glass in winter. The best 

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

 grow stockj' 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 ilniviitahle Dwarf). Bushy plants six 

 to eight inches high, covered with beautifully striped and 

 blotched flowers. In many of them the markings are as 

 beautifully star-shaped as' in the strains offered as Star 



Petunia Pkt. IScts 



Countess of EUesmere. Deep rose, white 



throat " 5cts 



Finest Striped and Blotched '• Sets 



Nyctaginiflora. Pure white " Sets 



Fine mixed " Sets 



Double mixed " 30Qt§ 



LARGE FLOWERING PETUNIAS 



Large Flowered mixed Pkt. lOcts 



Choicest Large Flowered mixed " IScts 



Fringed and Stained mixed, large flowered; 

 very desirable " socts 



Superbissima mixed. The flowers are of immense size, 

 supei-bly colored and the open throats are beautifully 

 veined. We have carefully compared other strains sold 

 as Giants of California, etc., and have fotind none superior 

 and most of them not equal to our strain of this magnifi- 

 cent variety. {See Supplement) Pkt. 35cts 



Brilliant Rose. Exceedmgly large, beautiful flowers of the 

 brightest and yet delicate rose color. One of the finest 

 varieties in cultivation and comes true from seed. 



Pkt. 3 Sets 



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

 single flowers that are noticeable because of their exceed- 

 ingly 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 arid 

 think there are very few garden plants that will make sO' 

 good and satisfactory^ a display Pkt. lOcts 



Grandiflora Robusta fl'. pi. Dwarf, of robust growth, form- 

 ing a compact, tipright. branched bush about ten inches 

 in height and fourteen inches in width, with large, double 

 flowers in all shades of colors existing in petunias. 



Pkt. 2 Sets 



Double Fringed Brilliant Rose. Bears large, exceedingly- 

 double and fringed flowers of the most brilhaht rose color. 

 Very desirable Pkt. 3octs 



Extra Double Fringed, many colors; 

 beautifully fringed; a good per- 

 centage double Pkt. 3 Sets 



Phlox Orummondl 



Very hardy annuals, unequaled in the magnificent 

 display of their many and brilliantly colored flowers. 

 They will grow even in poor soil' but in order to 

 develop to their highest perfection, must have rich 

 soil aiud rnust be given room. Plants from seed sovra 

 in open ground in fall or early spring will begin 

 flowering about July 1st and be literally covered 

 with bloom until autumn. For masses of separate 

 colors, or for cutting for bouquets, they are unsur- 

 passed. One foot high. 



large: flowering phlox 



Alba, pure white Pkt 



Black Warrior, very dark purple '' 



Scarlet, black center •' 



Rosea, deep rose " 



Carmine Red '' 



Kermesina Alba Oculata, rosy crimson, 



white eye ' " 



Splendens, crimson, pure white eye; one 



of the finest of this strain " 



Isabellina, creamy yellow; very desirable " 



Rosy Chamois, beautiful shade of rose. . '' 

 Stellata Splendens, rich crimson, with 



star-shaped white eye " 



Violet, deep violet blue with white eye. . . " 

 Extra Choicest mixed, best large flow- 

 ered varieties " 



The varieties of 

 the Perennial 

 Phlox are among the choicest of our floAvers for 

 bedding and border plants. They are hardy and 

 need no protection; will flourish in any soil, suc- 

 ceeding better, however, in deep, rich, rather moist 

 ground. Two to three feet high. Mixed seed saved 



from splendid sorts Pkt. lOcts 



PICOTEE— ("See Carnation). 



Peas. Everlasting S,%S. 



A perennial climber, producing a succession of 

 clusters of white, rose or purple blossoms. Suitable 

 for trellises, arbors, etc. The plants bloom the 

 second year, but give larger and more abundant 

 flowers as they grow older. Hardy perennial; ten 

 feet high. 



Rose Pkt. Sets 



White " Sets 



Mixed " 5cts 



PELARGONIUM — (-See Geranium). 



Phlox Perennial 



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