D. M. FERRY & GO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 



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DAHLIA.— This magnificent race of plants is too well known 

 to need description, thougrh it is not generally known 

 that they may be had in the greatest variety and beauty 

 from seed, both of the single and double sorts If 

 planted early and puslied they can be made to flower 

 the first season. Tender herbaceous perennials. 

 Finest double, mixed, seed saved from choicest double 



ftoicers 15 



Finest single, mixed, brilliant flowers running through 

 a wide range of striking colors 15 



DAISY— (Bellis).— The daisy has been so far improved by 

 selection and careful cultivation that c/ood seed will give 

 at least eight}' per cent, of flowers, as large and double 

 as any of the named sorts propagated by divisions of 

 the roots and sold at a high price. Splendid plants for 

 early spring and summer flowering, planted in partially 

 shaded situations. Are also excellent bloomers in the 

 house. 



Double white 15 



" red, introduced under the name of '"Longfellow. "" 



Comes true from seed. Flowers large and double 25 



Double, mixed, choice 10 



DATURA. — Large, branching plants, producing handsome, 

 double and single, trumpet shaped blossoms, yellow, 

 white, lilac, and of exquisite fragrance. Some of the 

 flowers are equal in beauty to our choicest lilies. Ten- 

 der annuals: three feet high. 

 Wrighti , pure white at the centre, passing into lilac and 



blue at the border; a magnificent plant 5 



Chlorantha, fl. pi., magnificent, large, double yellow 



blossoms, richly scented 5 



Fastuosa alba, fl. pi., flowers double, pure white 5 



Mixed , seeds of the above varieties mixed 5 



DELPHINIUM-(See Larkspur). 



DEW PLANT — (See Mesembryanthemum). 



DIANTHUS-fSee Pink). 



DIANTHUS BARBATUS-CSoe Sweet William). 



DIANTHUS CARYOPHYLLUS-(See Carnation). 



DIGITALIS-fSee Foxglove). 



DOLICHOS— (See Hyacinth Bean). ' 



EDELWEISS— (See Gnaphalium). 



ELICHRYSUn-(See Helichrysum). 



ERAQROSTIS— (See Love Grass). 



ERIANTHUS RAVENN/C.— A stately grass from South 

 Europe, growing four to seven feet high and in huge 

 clumps, each stem of which bears a large plume rival- 

 ing the Pampas Grass in size and gracefulness. In this 

 latitude needs some protection through winter, but 

 further south is perfectly hardy 10 



thirty to forty elegant, recurved flower spikes of light 

 violet color, resembling ostrich jjlumes. Beautiful for 

 vases in the winter 10 



EUPHORBIA VARIEGATA, hardy annual; foliage beauti- 

 fully veined and margined with white; very showy. 

 Sometimes known as "Snow on the Mountain"" 5 



EUTOCA.— Foliage dull green; leaves hairy: blossoms 

 intense blue striped, three-quarters of an inch across, 

 produced in terminal racemes. A branch placed in 

 water will bloom many days. Hardy annual; one 

 foot high. 



Viscida, blue 5 



' ' alba striata, striped 5 



Mixed 5 



FEATHER GRASS— (Stipa pennata).— Hardy perennial, 

 ornamental grass of much beauty, used in the forma- 

 tion of winter bouquets 10 



FOHGET-M E-NOT. 



FERNS.— Flowerless plants, too well known to need descrip- 

 tion. Many of the most beautiful sorts are propagated 

 from seed only. Their exceeding grace and beaut}' will 

 well repay all care bestowed upon them. 



Fine mixed 20 



Finest species mixed, unsurpassed 25 



FdvERFEW— (See Matricaria and Pyrethrum). 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA. 



Euphorbia VARitCAT^ 



Ferns. 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA— (California Poppy).— A genus of the FORGET-ME-NOT— (flyosotis alpestris\— Plant of oom- 



poppy family, and fully as valuable as the common |>act. bushy habit, 'gi"«^'\ving six to eight inches high: 



poppy for garden ornamentation, and as easily grown. tl'>\vers large, blue: hardy perennial 10 



Nothing is handsomer or richer in color than a bed of Dissitiflora, very deep blue; early blooming; hardy per- 



these in full bloom. Hardy annuals: height one foot. ennial "! ' ' 15 



Mandarin. The outer side of the petal is brilliant scar- r-^, „^ ^,^. ^/-i^ n . * r. ^ 0.1 i * 1 .. 



let. the inner side, rich oranqe . 15 ^^^^ O'CLOCK-^ Harvel of Peru*.-The plants are large 



Californica, bright yellow ....'. 5 5,V'^ requuv four feet of space: make a pretty hedge. 



Crocea alba, fl. pi., creamy white, double 5 The flowers are funnel shaped, white red and striped. 



striata striped 5 very fragrant, and (>pen about four o clock in the after- 

 Mixed ' 5 noon, remain open all night, and generally perish 



before noon the next day. The French call it Belle de 



EULALIA JAPONICA. —A most magnificent ornamental Xuit. ""Beauty of Night." Will grow in any common 



grass from Japan, growing five to six feet high, and garden soil, from seed sown in open ground. Hardy 



exceedingly graceful. A single plant often makes annual: two feet high. 



