M. FERRY & CO.. DETROIT, MICH. 



Petunia 



Petunias are unsurpassed for massing in beds. They are also used along walks and driveways 

 and are often grown in window boxes. Their richness of color, duration of bloom and easy cul- 

 ture will always make them popular. They endure drought exceptionally well. The full, double 

 petunias do not produce seeds. To procure doubleflowers one must use the seeds saved from single 

 flowers which have been carefully fertilized by hand with pollen fiom the double ones. The seed 

 we offer is the result of careful hybridization and can be depended upon to give as large a proportion of double flowers as any. 

 In some strains the flowers are very large, measuring four to five inches across; in others, they are deeply fringed; stiU others 

 have star-like markings radiating from the throat aud 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 blotched. 



Plant the seed, which is exceedingly fine, in a warm, open, sunny place. Seeds may be so\vn directly in the open ground; or 

 for early results the plants may be started in cold-frame, hotbed or in pots indoors, in a temperature averaging sixty to 

 seventy degrees. Water with a flne spray and do not permit the seedlings to dry out. The plants are tender and should not 

 be trusted in the open until danger of frost is over. Any good, friable garden soil, well pulverized and in good condition may 

 be used, aud the seed covered with about one-eighth to one-fourth inch of flne soil firmly pressed down. The rows should 

 be two feet apart. Thin to eighteen inches apart. Tlie plants begin to bloom when small and continue until cut off by frost. 

 Tender perennial, blooming the first year; about one and one-half feet high. 



Petunias are also sometimes 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 approach of cold weather, cut back and taken inside for 

 winter bloom. 

 Single Dwarf Compact (^Inimitable Dwarf) Bushy plants only about eight inches high, covered with small flowers, generally 



striped or blotched. In many the markings are as beautifully star-shaped as in the strain olfered as "Star" petunia. . . 



Countess of Ellesmere. Flowers single, deep rose, white throat, very small. A good bedder 



Nyctaginiflora. Flowers white, fragrant. A good white bedding variety ; very floriferous 



Finest Striped and Blotched. Includes striped or blotched flowers in a wide range of colors. A fine bedder. Oz. 90c. . . 



Fine Mixed. An excellent variety of markings including white, stripes and shades of rose, red and purple. Oz. 50c 



Double Mixed. The seed we offer will produce a large percentage of double flowers in a good range of colors 



Pkt. ISc. 

 5c. 

 5c. 

 5c. 

 5c. 

 20c. 



LARGE FLOWERING PETUNIAS 



Large Flowered Mixed. Plants vigorous and flowers very large; some striped, others self colored. ^"5 Oz. $1.00 Pkt. 10c. 



Fringed and Stained Mixed. Very attractive, deeply fringed flowers in a variety of colors " 20c. 



Superbissima Mixed. Flowers of immense size, superbly colored with throats beautifully veined. We have carefully compared 



other strains sold as "Giants of 



California," etc., and have found 



none superior and many of them not 



equal to our strain of this magnifi- 

 cent variety Pkt. 25c. 



Brilliant Rose. Large flowers of very 



bright, yet delicate and exceptionally 



attractive rose color. One of the 



finest single varieties in cultivation 



and comes true from seed.. .Pkt. 25c. 

 General Dodds. Large, single flowers 



of an exceedingly rich, dark purple 



color. A vigorous and very persist- 

 ent bloomer and there are few garden 



plants that will make so satisfactory a 



display .Pkt. 10c. 



Extra Double Fringed. Many colors; 



flowers beautifully fringed. .Pkt. 25c. 

 Grandiflora Robusta, fl. pi. Dwarf, of 



robust growth, forming a compact. 



upright, 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 of 



the varieties to bloom Pkt. 25c. 



D»_i— 1.—..^..^.. Handsome, half 

 rents temOl* hardy, herba- 

 ceous perennials about two feet high 

 and very desirable for bedding and 

 borders. They usually bloom the first 

 year, especially if started early. Tlie 

 flo^vers are bell-shaped or tubular, an 

 inch and a half long, and are borne in 

 racemes or spikes. The colors include 

 white and various shades of rose and 

 purplish red striped with white. 



Sow outdoors after danger of frost 

 is past. It is well to use some mulching 

 for protection through winter. 



Mixed Pkt. 10c. 



P^r»TtV (PcBonia herbacea 

 * CCIlljr Chinensis) Well known 

 herbaceous perennial plants, with very 

 double flowers and abmidant dark 

 green foliage, which may be grown 

 either from seed or roots. 



The seed is of very slow growth, and 

 germination may be hastened some- 

 what by cutting or flling carefully a 

 notch through the shell of the seed, 

 preferably on the rounding side. Rich, 

 well prepared soil should be used and 

 the seed covered one-half inch deep; 

 keep well moistened and at a tempera- 

 ture of .500 to 60°. If the seed be sown 

 in a cold frame in autumn, the plants 

 will be large enough to transplant the 

 following, spring, and a year later will 

 bloom. Hants about three feet high. 



Double Mixed. Pkt. 25c. 



{Penny Roots are listed in our autumn 



Bulb Catalogue.) 

 PERIWINKLE— (See Vinca) 



Double Petunias 



