D. M. FERRY & GO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



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monster double lulip, form a beautiful contrast and are 

 a worthy ornament to any garden or lawn Easily 

 grown in tanks or ponds. Full cultuial directions on 

 each packet. Yellow, fragrant 25 



NE.IOPHILA— 'See Love Grove;. 



NICOTIAN A AFFINIS.-A handsome genus of garden 

 plants of the tobacco family which are noted for the 

 freedom and fragrance of their bloom. Half hardy 

 annuals; three feet high. Flowers white, salver shaped, 

 having long, tubular corollas, and are of exquisite 

 fragrance. Deserves a place in everv garden 10 



NIEREABERGIA GRACILIS.— Charming httle plants, 

 well adapted for edgings, baskets, etc. One-half hardy 

 annual. A fine bedding plant; white with purple eye: 

 slender and graceful. One foot high 10 



NIGELLA— (See Love-m-a-Mist). 



NOL A.N A.— Beautiful trailing plants, with prostrat€> stems, 

 much branched; almost equal to the Portulaca for 

 gro\\-ing in masses, and 

 unsurpassed for rock 

 work, pots, baskets or 

 vases, as the branches 

 hang pendulous over the 

 edge of vase or basket. 

 The blossoms are con- 

 volvulus shaped, brilliant, 

 freely produced, and of 

 various colors. Hardy, 

 trailing annual; six 

 inches high. Mixed. 



NYCTERINIA.-Charm- 

 ing little plants well 

 adapted for 

 rockeries and 

 baskets. The 

 flowers are 

 borne on 

 large heads, 

 are of vari- 

 ous colors, 

 star shaped, 

 and during 

 the evening 

 are very fra- 

 grant. Half 

 hardy annu- 

 al; six inches 

 high. 



Capensis, white 10 



nixed 10 



(ENOTHERA— (See Primrose). 



OLEANDER — rNerium Ole- 

 ander^. —This well known 

 shrub, originally a native of 

 India. Ls of easy culture, and 

 flowers freely the greater 

 part of the year. In warm. 



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Palm, Ckam>ercps Excelsa. 



moist climates, it requires no protection, and attains 

 the proijortions of a good sized tree. The flowers have 

 a silver shaped corolla, with a crown of torn appen- 

 dages in the center, and are a beautiful shade of pink- 

 ish red 10 



OXALIS.— Very pretty herbaceous plants with rich, rose 

 colored blossoms. They thi'ive well in a mixture of 

 loam and sand. Desirable for green-house decoration, 

 rock work or baskets out of doors. Half hardy per- 

 ennial. 



Rosea, rose colored 10 



Floribunda alba, white 10 



P/EONY HERBACEA— (Chinensis).— Xew varieties of 

 these justly i^opular flowers are obtained from seed, and 

 are sure to repay the httle care required. A splendid 



collection of finest double .sorts of all colors 25 



PALM— (Chamaerops).- The palm is perhaps one of the 

 most ornamental plants in the green-house, and those 

 varieties that are hardy enough to 

 bear planting out in the'lawn during j 

 warm weather are sure to command 

 attention. 



Humilis- (Dwarf 

 Fan Palmj, the 

 most hardy and 

 dwarf of its 

 species, seldom 

 attaining over 

 eight or ten 

 feet in height.. 15 

 Excelsa— (Hem- 

 pen Palm of 

 Chinas is a 

 gree n-house 

 variety in our ; 

 climate. As a 

 lawn plant in 

 our Southern 

 States, nothing 

 could be more 

 conspicuously 

 ^- attractive. A 

 well grown 

 specimen wlU 

 attain the .. 

 height of 25 

 or 30 feet 25 



PAMPAS QRASS-(Qy- 

 nerium argenteum;.— 



Magnificent, ornament- 

 al grass, producing nu- 

 merous flower stems 

 surmounted by plumes of 

 silvery inflorescence. Half 

 hardy perennial, from South 

 America ; ten feet high 10 



r A AS 1. —These lovely flow- 

 ers are favorites with all, not only for the brilliancy 

 and variety of their colors, but for the durability of 

 their bloom. 



Emp>eror William, indigo, dark center 10 



King of the Blacks, coal black 10 



Odier, or large stained, large, each petal blotched 15 



Pure yellow iQ 



Variegated and striped, fine 10 



While, pure lO 



Purple, white edged 10 



S]<y blue lO 



Gold margined lO 



Mahogany colored lo 



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RIMANOeAU 



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