No'belties and Specialties^ D. M. Ferry & Co,, Detroit, Mich, 3 



GeneraLl Dodds' PetuniaL, Hybrida. 



This is a strain of Petunia producing large, single flowers that are noticeable because of their 

 exceedingly rich, dark purple color, which is really one of the most striking among Petunias. We 

 recommend General Dodds as a vigorous and very persistent bloomer and think there are ver>' few 

 garden plants that will make so good and satisfactory- a display. Pkt. lOc. 



Ferry's SuperbissimaL Blotched PoLnsy 



A splendid giant ruffled strain developed by one of the most skillful plant growers and breeders 

 m the world, who was actuated more by love of the work and pleasure in the beautiful results accom- 

 plished than by desire for mere financial profit. His aim was to develop large, broad, brilliantly 

 colored petals of great substance and formed into a most perfectly shaped flower. This has been 

 accomplished. The petals are not only of great size and substance, but they are so very large as to 

 overlap each other and are so corrugated as to give somewhat the effect of double flowers. Brilliancy 

 rather than uniformity of color has been aimed at. Indeed the latter has been studiously avoided". 

 Those who plant this' strain are certain to secure not only large flowers of perfect form and exquisite 

 coloring, but in great variety of shade and markings. The plants are profuse bloomers. Ever\- seed 

 of Ferry's Superbissima has come from a plant which produced flowers that satisfied one of the most 

 critical pansy specialists in Europe, and we believe that in offering this seed we are giving our cus- 

 tomers the opportunity to raise finer pansies of their class than they have ever seen before. Pkt. 15c. 



See Pansies, page 8j. 



Josephine White Sweet Pea ^ 



While we have not attempted to swell the list of the varieties we offer of this beautiful flower 

 b\- adding even,- sort that was in some particular slightly different from others, we have aimed to 

 include in our list of varieties all the best sorts and those of every distinct color and form. Among 

 the newer sorts we call attention first to Josephine White. This pure American variety has proven 

 the past season to be an even more desirable sort for forcing than we claimed last year. Xot only 

 with us, but with others of the most experienced cultivators in the United States, it has proven to be 

 more vigorous in vine, earlier and a more abundant bloomer than Mont Blanc, and the flowers are of 

 better size and substance. We believe it to be bv far t/ie best extra early sort either for the open 

 ground or for forcing. Pkt. 15c ; Oz. 40c ; 2 Ozs. 60c ;' )i Lb. $1.00 ; Lb. $3.00. See pages go and gi. 





ExtraL Early Blanche Ferry S\veet Pea^ 



This is the pioneer extra early sweet pea, and bears much the same relation to the other sor1:s 

 of this section that the original Blanche Ferr)- does to other American sorts, in that it is of vigorous 

 and hardy, though dwarf habit, and a wonderfully free and persistent bloomer. It will be found to 

 be the first of all varieties to furnish flowers, either in greenhouse or out of doors, and it will continue 

 to furnish them in great abundance longer than most varieties. The flowers are exactly like, in form 

 and color, those of Blanche Ferrj.-, and equally brilliant and effective. Pkt. 5c; Oz. lOc; ^/Lb. 20c; Lb. 60c. 



See pages go and gi. 



IrvconsteLncy Sweet Peat 



This is a Sweet Pea which has attracted ver\' general attention, chiefly because of the unusual 

 variety of bloom, for which it was named. A single plant at one period of its growth will produce 

 white flowers, at another period flowers unquestionably of primrose color. Frequentlv flowers of each 

 color appear on the same vine at the same time. This difference in color is due neither to fading nor 

 to mixed stocks, but is simply a true and 

 interesting peculiarity of this novelty. In 

 dependent of this curious diversity of color, 

 the past season has demonstrated' it to be a 

 very valuable extra early sort. Pkt. lOc; 

 Oz. 30c. See pages go and gi. 



Lord Fauntleroy Salvia. 



Many strains of Salvia Splendens have 

 been offered under different names with the 

 claim that they are larger flowered or more 

 floriferous than the old type. We have found 

 none of them more distinctly valuable than 

 this strain, in which the plant is more uni- 

 formly dwarf and floriferous and the flower 

 spikes longer than in the common stock, so 

 we strongly recommend it as a decided im- 

 provement. The plant is uniformly dwarf, 

 averaging only about twenty inches high.. 

 In habit it is exceedingly free blooming, 

 bearing above the dark green foliage brill- 

 iant crimson spikes which are longer than 

 those of the common sorts. Pkt. 25c. 



Lord Fauntleroy Salvia. 



