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D. M. Ferry & Cos Descriptive Catalogue. 



Goliath, Mont Rose, splendid variety^ with 

 flowers a charming peach color. The blossoms 

 are freely produced, of enormous size, and 

 most perfect form. Plants of robust, branch- 

 ing habit 20 



Goliath, Mont Blanc, similar to the Mont 

 Rose, but having enormous white flowers 20 



Goliath, new crimson, a?i entirely new va- 

 riety; very brilliant and conspicuous. Its 

 extremely large blossoms are valuable for 

 florists... 25 



Porcupine, or Hedgehog, mixed, the dis- 

 tinguishing feature of this variety is r.ie 

 quills or sharply pointed petals. The f jw- 

 ers are very curious in appearance, and 

 quite shoivy. Plants grow about two feet 

 high. A Jine range of colors 10 



Giant Emperor, snow white, flowers very 

 double, of enormous size, and good form. 

 Good for bouquets ; two feet 10 



mixed \Ai^ashington, a remarkably large va- 

 riety, exceeding all the other varieties in size, 

 frequently measuring five to six inches across 

 the blossom; of robust growth, and most per- 

 fect in form and color. The mixture includes 

 a number of very delicate and beautiful col- 

 ors. A valuable acquisition 20 



AUK.iCUi.A-^I»rimula). 



A favorite with flor- 

 ists, and much in de- 

 mand in England and 

 Scotland, where it is 

 to be found in perfec- 

 tion. Does not bear 

 well the extremes of 

 heat and cold. The 

 flowers all have vari- 

 ous colored eyes ; the 

 light ones with dark 

 ground colors are con- 

 sidered preferable. 

 The best soil to grow 

 them in is leaf mold 

 and sand, enriched 

 with decomposed ma- 

 nure. The seed should 

 be sown early in spring 

 in pots, in hot-bed, and transplanted one foot apart. 

 Tender perennial. 



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- 

 bracing all choice known varieties; selfs,grey. 

 white and green edged 20 



A25AI.KA. 



Spring flowering shrubs, universally admired for their 

 beautiful flowers, which are invariably produced in great 

 profusion. The flowers are of all conceivable colors, 

 and for brilliancy, are unsurpassed. Need hot-house 

 culture. Plant in April, in cold-frame; prick out the 

 seedlings the year following, in beds, four inches apart, 

 to remain till they flower. It is well to cover the plants 

 in the fall, with straw or mulch, as the late frosts some- 

 times destroy the young, early shoots. 

 Azalea, '\n6.\C2i, finest mixed. Green-house, ever- 

 green shrubs;" flowers very beautiful 25 



" pontica, finest 7>arieties. Hardy, deciduous 

 shrubs, producing flowers of surpassing beauty, 

 and all conceivable colors 25 



BACHHI^OR'S BUXTON. 



A perfectly hardy border plant, succeeding finely in 

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

 iant if grown in gravelly ground. Under cultivation, 



Bachelor's Button. 



it is really a handsome flower, sporting into varieties of 

 white, purple, pink, parti-colored, &c. Hardy annual ; 

 two to three feet high. 



Centaurea, cyanus, single mixed 5 



BAI^I^OOJ* VI:pjE (Cardiospermum) 



Remarkable for its inflated membraneous capsules, 

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

 insignificant, but the plant is a rapid and graceful 

 cliuiber. Sow in open ground, from ist to 15th of May, 

 and give plant support to run upon. Tender annual ; 

 six feet high. 

 Cardiospermum, halicacabum, white; from India. 10 



BAI^SAM. ' 



The Balsam has been so much improved by cultiva- 

 tion as to be scarcely recognized. The blossoms are 

 double, though some semi-double and single ones will 

 be pretty certain to appear, and such plants should be 

 removed. The flowers will be improved by planting in 

 a hot-bed, and transplanting when two leaves have 

 formed, one to two feet apart. Pinch off a portion of 

 the shoots, which will increase the size of the flower 

 and vigor of the plant. 



Balsam, double Solferino, satiny white, streaked 

 and spotted with crimson and lilac. Very 

 choice 10 



Double Camellia flowered Balsam. 



