D. M. FERRY & CO., DETROIT. MICH. 



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Carnation 



Celosia, Dwarf Cockscomb 



{Dianthus Caryophylhis) 

 '"Carnation," "Pink," 

 "Clove Fink," "Florists" 

 Pink," are names applied 

 by different people to the same or to different plants of 

 several species as well as to hybrids between them. They 

 are all easily grown from seed and very free blooming, 

 the flowers being bright colored and with a most delicious 

 clove-like fragrance. The improved varieties we offer are 

 suitable for cutting. They produce very double, semi- 

 circular blooms with thick wax-like petals and long 

 pod-like calyx. The plants are branching but compact and 

 erect, with slender, bluish green foliage. For larger flowers 

 of better quality remove all but terminal buds. Half hardy 

 perennial, usually treated as bennial 



The choicest varieties sold by florists are propagated 

 from cuttings but very beautiful double flowers just as 

 good in form and more fragrant, although not as large can 

 be produced from the seed we offer. Sovir under glass in 

 the greenhouse or hotbed from January to March. Use well 

 prepared soil, cover lightly and keep in a temperature of 

 about 60° F. Sprinkle with a fine spray. When the young 

 plants are of a sufficient size transplant them out of doors 

 two feet apart each way, or the seed may be sown in per. 

 manent bed as early in spring as weather will permit. 



Double Perpetual Flowered Mixed. An exceedingly beaut- 

 iful variety producing very double flowers of various shades 

 and colors. Seed from choicest double flowers.. Pkt. 25c. 



Double Picotee Fine Mixed. A magnificent strain of double 

 Picotees. The flowers are usually edged, striped or 

 splashed with other colors. Certain to produce a large 

 proportion of double and finely formed and colored flow ers. 

 Pkt. 15c. 



Double Choice Mixed. A mixture containing many of the 

 very choicest colors and types Pkt. 10c. 



Varieties Adapted to both Pot and 

 Outdoor Culture 



Seed may be sown outdoors early in spring, using well 

 pulverized soil, preferably sandy loam. Jiake rows one 

 foot apart and cover seed with one-fourth inch of fine soil 

 firmly pressed down. When two inches high, thin to 

 eight or ten inches apart. For earlier blooming start 

 indoors. 



There are usually only a few flowers obtainable in the open ground the first year, but if the plants are protected through 

 the winter they will bloom freely the second season. In southern latitudes seed may also be sown outdoors in fall. Half hardy 

 Iierennials, fifteen inches high, except Marguerite which can be treated very successfully as an annual. 

 Grenadin Double White. The plants are vigorous, erect and bushy; come into flower very early and furnish abundant 



bloom for a long time. The flowers are large, double, clear white and wonderfully fragrant Pkt. 25c. 



Grenadin Double Red. Comes into bloom very early and the charming, double, scarlet flowers are very valuable for form- 

 ing bouquets Pkt. 1 5c. 



Marguerite Finest Mixed. The plants of this wonderfully fine strain may be made to bloom in four months. Flowers large, 

 double, deeply fringed, very fragrant and appear in very attractive shades of color. Especially desirable for bedding 



as an aiuuial and for cutting. Oz.fl.OO .Pkt. 10c. 



Double Dwarf Vienna Mixed. Large flowered and comes into bloom early, producing flowers of many colors and beautiful 

 markings; a large proportion double. Oz. $2.00 Pkt. 10c. 



/^ . r> (Ricinus) Tall majestic plants for lawns or driveways; with broad, beautifully lobed, palm- 



l^g^ftf Qlr XS6dI\ ^"^^ leaves of glossy green, brown or bronzed metallic hue and long spikes of scarlet, or of green, 

 ^■^ *.^%i»**»* prickly seed pods. Makes a rapid, vigorous growth in rich soil. Sow seed outdoors after danger 



from frost is over, preferably in light rich soil, or for earlier blooms start indoors and transplant. For best development each 

 plant should have at least four feet each way. Its rich, luxuriant growth makes it very attractive for a long distance either 

 grown singly or in groups, or as center plnnts with Cannas, Dahlias, etc., giving a semi-tropical effect. Seed beautifully 

 striped or mottled. Tender annual; six to fifteen feet high. 

 Zanzibariensis. Wonderfully vigorous, from ten to fifteen feet high. Leaves have a brilliant luster, measuring about thirty inches 



across, ranging in color from bright green to deep bronze. Seed very large, oval. Mixed Varieties. Oz. 25c Pkt. 10c. 



Sanguineus. (Tricolor) Blood red stalks with red venation in leaves; height about six feet. Oz. 25c " lOc! 



Mixed. A desirable mixture of all the named varieties. Oz. 25c " lOc. 



An odd and picturesque class of plants having colored foliage and in which the innumerable small 

 flowers and seed vessels together with their supports form a very brilliantly colored mass, sometimes 

 gracefully arranged like plumes and sometimes more dense, being corrugated and frilled at the edge 

 like a cock's comb. They form the gayest possible decoration in beds and borders, retaining their 



brilliant coloring often from midsummer until frost. The red Cristata sorts are sometimes cut before fully ripe and diied in 



the house for winter bouquets. 



Seed may be sown outdoors as early in spring as ground is warm and dry, using if possible light, rich, well pulverized soil, 



and giving plenty of moisture. For larger and more beautiful plumes start the seed very early indoors and transplant to 



place when weather is settled. Also adapted for growing in pots in greenhouse and conservatory. Half hardy annuals. 



Tall Feathered Varieties 

 Childsi Crimson (Chinese Woolflmver). Plants about two and one-half feet high, branch freely and produce large, globular, 



purplish crimson flowers which resemble a ball of brilliantly colored wool. Oz. |3.00 Pkt. 10c. 



Childsi Yellow (Chinese Woolflovter). Of the same general form as the Childsi Crimson, but flowers are a very light canary 



yellow color Pkt. 10c. 



Golden Plume (piwmosa). Produces an abundance of graceful feather-like plumes of light golden yellow. Height two to three 



feet Pkt. 10c. 



Triumph of the Exposition (pluniosa). Plant of pyramidal form, bearing many exceedingly graceful, feather-like spikes 



of intensely lirilliant crimson color. Height two to three feet Pkt. 10c. 



Pyramidalis plumosa mixed. Plants pyramidal, branching, two or more feet high, covered with long, brilliantly colored and 



gracefully formed plumes in red, yellower violet. An excellent mixture of plumosa or feathered celosias. Oz.' ."iOc. .Pkt. 10c. 



D'warf Cockscomb Varieties { Celosia Cristata ) 

 Giant Empress. This beautiful dwarf plant has bronze leaves and forms very large crimson combs. Height about one foot. .Pkt. 10c. 



Dwarf Rose. One foot high; large rose-colored combs " lOc* 



I Dwarf Yellow. Large yellow combs. Height one foot " lOc! 



Glasgow Prize (President Ttiiers). Plant resembles a very large comb, densely corrugated; brilliant, deep purplish redi 



Foliage dark, not abundant; ten to twelve inches Pkt. 10c. 



I Dwarf Mixed. A mixture of the best dwarf growing sorts, Oz. if2,,50 ,,,...,,,,,.,,,,.., , , " jg^' 



Celosia 



