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FERRY & GO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 



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Carnation 



(Diaiithjis CaryophyUus) "Carna- 

 tion/' "Fink," "Clove Pink," "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 fi-om seed and very free blooming, the tlowei-s 

 being bright colored and with a most delicious clove-like fragrance. 

 Some of the varieties are very desirable for the prof essional florist 

 and make fine house plants for the amateur. Others do best m the 

 open ground and are among the most desirable of garden plants. 

 Half hardy perennial. 



Large Flowering Carnations Best Suited 



for Pot Culture 



These are the sorts most grown by florists who are con- 

 stantly striving to produce new varieties. Whde choice 

 varieties are propagated by cutting, planters may get 

 some just as good from the seed we ofifer and a large pro- 

 portion double and very beautiful. 



Double Perpetual Flowered Mixed. An exceedingly beauti- 

 ful variety producing very double flowers of various 

 shades and colors. Seed saved from choicest double 

 flowers Pkt. 35c. 



Fine Double Selves. Seeds from named varieties grown in 

 the open ground and likely to give some flowers fully 

 equal to the best greenhouse sorts Pkt. 10c. 



Fine Double Striped. Seed from fine named striped 

 varieties Pkt. 15c. 



Choicest White Ground. Seed from choice, large flower- 

 ed, named varieties, with nearly white petals bordered or 

 tinted with red or purple. Sure to give large and beauti- 

 ful flowers Pkt. 35c. 



Extra Choice Double Mixed. Seed from an immense col- 

 lection of choice French, German, Italian and English 

 named sorts. Certain to produce a large proportion of 

 double and finely formed and colored flowers in almost 

 endless variety of shade and markings Pkt. 15c. 



Varieties of Carnations adapted 



For outdoor culture a rich compost is indispensable to the 

 which a congenial soil is of so much importance. 



Early Double Snow White. A splendid sort for either pot 

 culture or the garden. The plants are vigorous, erect 

 and bushy in growth; come into flower very early and 

 furnish abundant bloom for a long time. The flowers 

 are large, double, clear white and wondez^fully fra- 

 grant Pkt. 35c. 



Marguerite. The plants of this vi^onderfuUy fine strain may 

 be made to bloom in four months. The flowers are large, 

 double, very fragrant and appear in very attractive shades. 

 One of the best "pinks" in cultivation Pkt. 5c. 



Celosia, Triumph of the Exposition 



Choice Double Mixed. A mixture containing many of the 

 very choicest colors and types Pkt. 1 Oc. 



Picotee, Extra Fine Double Mixed. Extra fine seed from 

 named varieties, petals spotted and splashed; sure to give 

 flowers of splendid quality in large proportion. .Pkt. 35c. 



to both Pot and Outdoor Culture 



production of fine carnations; there is scarcely any plant to 



Double Dwarf Vienna Mixed. Large flowered and comes 

 into bloom early, producing flowers of many colors and 

 beautiful markings Pkt. 10c. 



Double Red Grenadin. Plants are little smaller and less 

 erect than the White Grenadin but come into bloom a 

 little earlier and are fully as florif erous. Flowers double, 

 fragrant and of rich, deep red color Pkt. 15c. 



Double Florists' Pink {Plumarius Scoticus fl. pi.) The 

 double form of common garden or clove pink and one of 

 the best of our hardy garden perennials Pkt. 35c. 



Castor Bean 



Celosia 



(Ricinus) Tall majestic plants for lawns; with leaves of glossy green, brown, or bronzed 

 metallic hue and long spikes of scarlet, or of green, prickly fruit. Makes a rapid, 

 vigorous growth in rich soil. Tender annual; six to fifteen feet high. 

 Zanzibariensis. Wonderfully vigorous, from ten to fifteen feet high. Leaves have a brilliant lustre, measure about thirty 

 inches across, and in different plants range from bright green with green stems to deep bronze with dark red stems. 



Mixed Varieties Pkt. 5c. 



Sanguineus (Tricolor) Blood red stalks with red venation 



in leaves; height about six feet Pkt. 5c. 



Castor Bean, Mixed " 5c. 



A 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, sometinjes 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, retaining their brilliant coloring for a long 



time after being cut. Commonly grown out of doors but also 



adapted for the greenhouse or conservatory. Half hardy 



annuals. Plant in light, rich soil and give plenty of moisture. 



Pyramidalis plumosa mixed. The plant is over two feet high, 



and is covered with long, brilliantly colored and gracefully 



formed plumes in red, yellow or violet Pkt. 5c. 



Triumph of the Exposition. Plant of pyramidal form, bearing 

 many exceedingly graceful, feather-like spikes of intensely 



brilliant crimson color. Height about two feet Pkt. 10c. 



Variegated. A strain between the plumosa and cockscomb 

 types in which the plumes are broadened at the top; variegat- 

 ed and striped in red, and yellow Pkt. 10c. 



Japan. Plant grows two and a half or three feet high and cov- 

 ered with spikes which are very finely crested and of brilliant 

 colors usually variegated crimson and deep yellow. Pkt. 10c. 



Dwarf and Tree Cockscomb Types 



Giant Empress. The beautiful dwarf plant has dark red leaves 

 and forms immense bright, crimson combs Pkt. 10c. 



Glasgow Prize (President Thiers) The whole plant seems to 

 be formed into an immense comb, densely corrugated and of 

 a very brilliant, deep purplish red Pkt. 10c. 



Dwarf Rose. Large rose -colored combs *' 10c. 



Dwarf Yellow. Large yellow combs ** 10c. 



Dwarf Mixed. A mixture of best dwarf growing sorts. " 5c. 



Castor Bean, Zanzibariensis 



