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D. M. Ferry &. Go's Improved Purple Top 

 Yellow Ruta Baga. 



RUTA BAGA, New Large Ovoid Purple Top 

 Swede. — This variety is the result of a long selection 

 of roots to obtain the highest perfection of weight, 

 quality, purity and permanence of type. In size, it is 

 mammoth, and is a very heavy cropper. It resembles 

 closely D. M. Ferr>- & Go's celebrated Improved Purple 

 Top Yellow Ruta Baga, except m shape and size, this 

 variety being longer and more oblong. When a large 

 Swede of superior quality is desired, we recommend 

 this variety. 



Per packet 5 cents: oz. lo cents: 2 oz. is cents; "% lb. 

 S^ cents: lb. 75 cents 



New Large Ovoid Purple Top Yellow 

 Ruta Baga. 



PANSY. -Extra Choice Mixed. 



The seed of this popular flower which we offer as 

 extra choice vtixed is, this season, of our own saving 

 from the very choicest named varieties. Our strain will 

 prove m range of color, size and beauty of flower unsur- 

 passed by any hitherto offered. Seeds may be sown in 

 open ground in springer summer, or in hot-bed early m 

 spnng. The plants should always occupy a cool, partially 

 shaded situation, and the ground cannot be too rich ; 

 coolness and moisture are necessary. Transplant when 

 an inch high. Seeds sown in July will blossom late in 

 autumn ; if sown in October, will bloom the followmg 

 spring. 



Per packet i^ cents. 



rYRETHUXJM nOSEUM-Insect Powder 



Plant. 



Practical entomologists have long been looking for 

 some effective, safe and cheap insecticide, and now tell 

 u. they have found it in the Persian Insect Pozvder. 

 This is the dried and powdered flowers of the Pyreth- 

 rum Roseum, and is certain death to Plant Lice, Flies, 

 Cabbage Worms, and nearly every form of insect life. 

 It is harmless to man, but when diluted with ten 

 times its bulk of flour, kills every cabbage worm or 

 other insect it touches. Hitherto the high cost of the 

 powder and the difficulty of securing a J>ure and /resk 

 article has prevented its coming into general use, but 

 experiments made last season by Prof. Riley, of the 

 United States Entomological Commission and others, 

 showed that it can be grown successfully in all of the 

 southern and many of the northern States. 



CiLTTRE. — Sow in boxes of prepared soil, as early as 

 the season will permit, and iranrplant to sixteen inches 

 apart whenever the plants are large enough. The 

 young seedlings are small and of slow growth, but the 

 older plants hardy and vigorojs. The largest crop of 

 fiowers is produced the second season. They should be 

 gathered when in full bloom, dried carefully, and stored 

 ia paper bags. Before using, the flowers should be 

 powdered as fine as possible. 



Per packet 10 cents: oz. Sl.OO. 



VERBENA.- Extra Choice Mixed. 



For some years we have made a siiecialty of grovir^ 7 

 extra choice verbena seed and this year we offer seeJ oi 

 our own growth from named flowers which is the result 

 of careful selection of varieties pose^^sing robust habit of 

 growth combined with greatest beauty of flower. This ( 

 st-cd will be satisfactory to the most discriminating lov- 

 ers of flowers. N'erbcnas flower perfectly well from seeds 

 sown in spring. I f started in the house, in pots, in winter, 

 they will be in bloom sooner, bat if sown in open ground, 

 in May, ihey will bK^om in August. 

 Ftr^aektt 90 etntt. 



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