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



STANDARD SEEDS 



"AT THE STORE AROUND THE CORNER" 



ACCESSIBILITY. Although we fill many thousands of mail orders every season our chief means of 

 distributing Ferry's seeds is through the hands of first class local dealers throughout the United States and 

 Canada. There is scarcely a responsible retail merchant anywhere that cannot supply your needs fully and 

 immediately with the minimum amount of trouble and the maximum amount of pleasure and profit in the 

 results. Market gardeners and others planting large areas have come to depend confidently upon our seeds 

 sold in bulk. They know that purity of type results in large crops of the finest fruits and vegetables and that 

 it pays to plant only the best. Our market gardener trade increases every year and we seldom lose a customer. 

 The professionals who make their living by 

 gardening — in other words the experts — know 

 and use Ferry's seeds. It is no wonder then 

 that there is a steady increase in the number 

 of those who buy Ferry's packet seeds for 

 smaller gardens. 



COMMISSION PACKETS. There 

 must, of course, be a good reason for this 

 general confidence in our packet seeds. No 

 product can maintain a prominent place in 

 public esteem for sixty years unless it posses- 

 ses genuine intrinsic merit. Ferry's seeds have 

 become a household necessity because they 

 were the best obtainable. It has been to our 

 financial advantage to supply satisfactory 

 goods because having long ago reached the 

 territorial limits of that portion of the conti- 

 nent lying north of the Rio Grande, we must 

 sell to the same people year after year. We 

 cannot afford to lose our well earned position 

 in public esteem. When you buy a packet 

 of Ferry's you can be sure that we know as 

 far as it is possible to foresee that the seeds 

 will be of satisfactory vitality and will produce 

 good results. 



**FRESH EVERY YEAR'* means that 

 our packets are put up especially for the season 

 in which they are sold. We do not send out 

 packets a second time. Our traveling sales- 

 men visit the trade at least once every year. 

 All unsold papered seeds are then taken up 

 and shipped back to Detroit and none of our 

 packets are ever on sale a second season. 

 Therefore you can be just as sure of the con- 

 dition of seeds offered in a newly opened 

 ' ' commission ' ' box as of those received direct- 

 ly from us by mail. The purchaser receives 

 in a sealed envelope fresh seeds that bear the 

 imprint of the largest garden seed house in 

 the world, seeds that have directly behind 

 them the most complete organization, the 

 greatest experience and the finest facilities 

 ever devoted to the production and distribu- 

 tion of graden seeds. 



_ EXPERIENCE. Our splendid organi- 

 zation enables us to specialize. In a smaller 

 seed house which includes other fines than 

 garden seeds one may be familiar with more 

 kinds of work but he cannot know as much 

 about any one thing as if he gave that thing 

 his whole attention. In a large organization 

 a man tends to find his proper work and hav- 

 ing found it to become its master. Hence at 

 every_ point our business is directed by men 

 especially fitted by nature and training for the 

 duties they perform. Moreover we have been 

 supplying garden seeds for sixty-six years. 

 Multiply our huge annual volume by the time 

 we have been seed merchants and you can 

 readily see we have had the greatest expe- 

 rience of any garden seed producers now in 

 business. 



In a word, we have every facility and in- 

 centive to meet your needs. Buy Ferry's seeds 

 of "the store around the corner" and you will 

 become one of our army of staunch friends. 



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