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D. M. FERRY & GO'S 



Aster, Dwarf Pyramidal Bouquet. A. Hedge 



delicate, and run through various shades. A 



valuable acquisition 20 



Aster, new crimson, an entirely new variety: very 

 brilliant and conspicuous. Its extremely large 

 blossoms are valuable for florists ; of same type 

 and habit as Mont Rose 25 



" newest Bismarck, in growth, like the Dwarf 

 Pyramid, with dark foliage. The flowers have 

 a peculiar shining lustre, and are of various 

 colors 20 



" newest Shakespeare, a new, dwarf aster of 

 wondrous beauty. The plants form a compact 

 bush of ten or twelve inches in diameter, and 

 six inches high. Flowers extra double, and 

 well imbricated. Extremely full blooming, 

 and keeps in flower till frost comes. Twelve 

 colors mixed 20 



" Trophy. Plants twenty inches high, very 

 hardy, regularly branched, forming fine, self- 

 supporting, globular bushes, studded with beau- 

 tifully imbricated, symmetrically formed, per- 

 fectly double, globular flowers of exquisite 

 beautj'. Extremely showy. Twelve colors 

 7nixed • 25 



" Diamond. A novelty of the highest 77terit^ 

 especially recommended by the floral com- 

 mittee of the London Horticultural Society, of 

 London, last autumn. Plants eighteen inches 

 high, with very large flowers of the greatest 

 perfection; constant in habit and color. Thir- 

 teen colors mixed 25 



" Meteor, a beautiful fiovelty, quite new in 

 'habit ; the profusely branching plant repre- 

 sents a dense globular bush, fifteen inches in 

 diameter, covered with small, globular, ex- 

 tremely double, finely imbricated, bright 

 crimson flowers 25 



ATJIlICUI.A-(Primula), 



A favorite with florists, and much in demand in Eng- 

 land and Scotland, where it is to be found in perfection. 

 Does not bear well the extremes of heat and cold. The 

 flowers all have various colored eyes ; the light ones 

 with dark ground colors are considered preferable. The 

 best soil to grow them in is leaf mould and sand, enriched 

 with decomposed manure. The seed should be sown 

 early in spring, in pots in hot-bed, and transplanted one 

 foot apart. Tender perennials. 



Auricula, Alpine, a native of the Alpine regions of 

 Switzerland, improved by cultivation, and the 

 most hardy variety 15 



" finest prize, collection of the best sorts, em- 



Azalea. 



Auricula. 



bracing all choice known varieties ; selfs, grey, 

 white, and green edged 20 



AZALEA. 



Spring-flowering shrubs, universally admired for their 

 beautiful flowers, which are invariably produced in great 

 profusion. The 

 flowers are of all 

 conceivable col- 

 ors, and for brill- 

 iancy, are unsur- 

 passed. Need 

 hot-house culture' 

 Plant in April in 

 cold-frame ; prick 

 out the seedlings 

 the year follow- 

 ing, in beds, four 

 inches apart, to 

 remain till they 

 flower. It is well 

 t o cover the 

 plants in the fall, 

 with straw or mulch, as the late frosts sometimes des- 

 troy the young, early shoots. 



Azalea, indica, finest Titixed. Green-house, ever- 

 green shrubs ; flowers very beautiful 25 



" pontica, fittest Ghent varieties. Hardy de- 

 ciduous shrubs, producing flowers of surpass- 

 ing beauty, and all conceivable colors 25 



BACHELOR'S BTTTTO]Sr.-(Centaurea). 



A perfectly hardy border plant, succeeding finely in 

 any common garden soil, but the flowers are more brill- 

 iant if grown in gravelly ground. In Europe it grows 

 wild in the corn fields, and is known as Corn Bottle and 

 Blue Bottle, and produces only blue flowers. Under cul- 

 tivation, it is a really handsome flower, sporting into 

 varieties of white, purple, pink, parti-colored, &c. 

 Hardy annual ; two to three feet high. 

 Centaurea, cyanus, single, mixed 5 



BALLOON VINE— (Cardiospermum). 



Remarkable for its inflated membraneous capsules, 

 and sometimes called Love-in-a-Puff. The flowers are 

 insignificant, but the plsnt is a rapid and graceful 

 climber. The seed is round, and marked with a white, 

 heart-shaped spot. Sow in open ground, from ist to 

 15th of May, and give plant support to run upon. Ten- 

 der annual ; six feet high. 

 Cardiospermum, halicacabum, white; from India. 10 



