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



V« (Pemvinkle) These very attractive bushy plants with glossy green foliage produce in abundance handsome 



m ^y f% ^ round or salver shaped single flowers, suitable either for culture in pots or boxes or for summer bedding 

 iii^^l ^'^'^ borders. If sown early under glass and transplanted in a warm, sheltered situation will bloom in summer 

 and autumn and may be potted for the house before frost. The plants require no trimming, are in con- 

 tinuous bloom from setting out until frost and are entirely free from the attacks of insects. These desirable features account 

 for the increasing demand for Vincas in parks and private grounds for summer bedding and borders. Tender perennial 

 blooming the first season, about fifteen inches high. ' 



Pure White. Beautiful pure white. Oz. Toe Pkt. 5c. I Rosea Alba. White with crimson eye. Oz. 7oc Pkt. 5c. 



Rosea. Rose with crimson eye: flowers often two inches in diameter. A very desu-able window plant. Oz. 75c "'5c! 



Mixed. The above natded varieties mixed. Oz. 75c •• 5^" 



VIOLA TRICOLOR— (See Pansy) 



\7* • • Cf r»/.L- (Cheiranthus niaritimus) The plants are of more branching and open habit than the common stocks 



V irglllia.n kJlOClv and are .very useful for border or edging. Sow early in spring, or for very early blooming sow in 



fall or start indoors and transplant. A continual succession of blossoms may be kept up by sowing at intervals through 



spring and summer. Hardy annual: about nine inches high. 

 Red and white, mixed. Clusters of beautiful single cruciform flowers .Pkt. 5c. 



^jy 11.fl (Cheiranthus cheiri) An old favorite European garden flower. The long, fragrant terminal 



VV A I iTIOWr^lf* spil^ss of the 'ttallQower when properly grown are very conspicuous in beds and borders and are 

 • " •**** **^ "▼ ^'^ very useful in making bouquets. Sou- seed early in hotbeds and whUe plants are small prick 

 them out into pots and sink in the earth. On approach of cold weather remove the pots to the house and the plants will 

 bloom all winter. Tender bushy biennial or perennial that will hve through the winter in a mild climate; height of plants about 

 one and one-half feet. 



Early Brown. Brownish-red, fragrant single flowers; large, thick spikes; early. Tender biennial. Oz. 25c Pkt. 5c. 



Golden Tom Thumb. Free flowering, of dwarf and compact habit; blossoms single and of an attractive golden yellow color. 

 Tender biennial Pkt. 5c. 



Mixed Double. Deliciously fragrant, perfectly double, and combine many shades of color, the orange, purple and chocolate 

 predominating. Oz. §2.50 Pkt. 10c. 



W'l 1 /^..-..-—l-^m. (Ecliinocystis lobata) This is a useful climber where a rapid and vigorous growth of vine is desired. 

 IICI v^UCUlIlUcr To cover or to screen an unsightly building, there is perhaps no annual climber better adapted for 

 the purpose. The vine has abundant foliage and is thickly covered with sprays of smaU white, fragrant flowers, followed by 

 numerous prickly seed pods. Sow late in fall or very early in spring. Usually the plants are produced from year to year by 

 self sown seed. Hardy annual. Oz. 20c; Lb. $1.50 Pkt. 5c. 



Wistaria. Chinensis 



One of the most beautiful 

 and rapid growing of the 

 hardy perennial climbers. When well established in good 

 soil it will often grow fifteen to twenty feet during tlie 

 season and frequently blooms both in spring and faU. 

 The flowers are very fragrant, single, pale blue, pea- 

 shaped andare bornein long, drooping grape-like clusiers, 

 often over a foot in lengtli. Foliage light green pinnate. 

 The seed should be sown in meUow loam early in the 

 spring, or in greenhouse or hotbed in winter and when 

 plants are one foot high transplanted into permanent 

 situations Plrt. 20c. 



Z0 ^ Sometimes called Youth and Old 



_^ _^ ^^ Age. Well known bush-like plants 

 1 1^ M^ 1 2« producing a profusion of large 

 AJLaAAaCC double imbricated flowers, usu- 

 ally about two inches across, 

 borne on stiff stems: much used for bedding and suitable 

 for borders and for cutting. There is much satisfaction in 

 a bed of Zinnias with their twisted and recurved petalled 

 flowers in many bright colors, and when nearly everj' 

 other flower has been kUled by frost this plant is still in 

 full bloom. Few flowers are more easily grown or bloom 

 more abundantly throughout the season, and the wide 

 range of color is "not less remarkable than their unusual 

 depth and richness. Sow the seed early in spring, in open 

 ground in good, rich soil, preferably in rows one and one- 

 half feet apart and covering about "one-fourth inch deep. 

 When the young plants are one to two inches high thin to 

 six inches apart. Start under glass for earher blooming. 

 Half hardy annual; tall gro\vlng, about one and one-half 

 to two feet high. 



Double yellow. Oz. 40c Pkt. 5c. 



scarlet. Oz. 40c " 5c. 



" deep red. Oz. 40c " 5c. 



" magenta. Oz. 40c " 5c. 



" orange. Oz. 40c " 5c. 



" white. Oz. 40c " 5c. 



" black purple. Oz. 410 " 5c. 



" dau-k crimson. Oz. 40c " 5c. 



** striped or zebra, mixed. Oz. 60c ** 5c. 



Double choice mixed. Includes the above colors: a very 

 fine mixture. Oz. 40c: Lb. S4.00 Pkt. 5c. 



Lilliput, double mixed. This strain grows about one foot 

 high and bears a profusion of comparatively small, very 

 double, globular flowers about one inch in diameter, very 

 brilliant in color Pkt. 10c. 



Pompon, double mixed. The globular flowers are fully as 

 varied and brilhant in color as the ordinary Zinnia and 

 about half its size. Oz. 40e Pkt. 5c. 



Haageana, double. Dwarf variety with double flowers of a 

 deep orange color, about one and one-quarter inches in 

 diameter: fine for cut flowers; height one foot.. .Pkt. 10c. 



Mexicana Hybrida, variegated. Distinctive in its well- 

 fornied single flowers of deep maroon and golden yellow, 

 strikingly contrasted. Flowers similar to French Legion 

 of Honor Marigold, but are earher and more easily gro%\'n. 

 Hardy annual; one foot high Pkt. 15c. 



