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



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Petui\i©LS 



Petunias are unsurpassed for massing in beds. 

 Their richness of color, duration of blooui and easy 

 culture will always i-ender theui popular. The mod- 

 ern improved varieties are very clioice plants, having been 

 wonderfully brought up from the same species which were 

 in use twenty-five years ago. The full, double petunias do 

 \j not produce seeds, so that to procm-e double flowers we 



^ must use the seed of single flowers which have been care- 



fully fertilized by pollen from the double ones. 



The seed we offer is from the result of careful hybridiza- 

 tion, and can be depended upon for giving as large a pro- 

 portion of double flowers as any. 



In some sti'ains the fliowei's are very large, measuring 

 four or five inches across; in others they are deeply 

 fringed; still others have star-like markings radiating 

 from the throat and extending nearly or quite to the outer 

 margin of the blossom; again, others have full, double 

 flowers. The colors range from white to deep red-purple, 

 and are variously striped and barred. 



Plant in a warm, open, sunny place. Seeds may be sown 

 directly in the open ground, or the plants may be started 

 in pots indoors for early results. The plants are tender and 

 ,. should not be trusted in the open until settled weather. Thin to 

 7 twelve to eighteen inches apart. When well started, they grow 

 almost as easily as weeds. They begin to bloom when very 

 small, and continue until cut off by frost. Tender perennial, 

 blooming the first year. 

 Petunias are easily grown under glass in winter. The best 

 ll method is to sow seeds in late summer or eai-ly fall, and to grow 

 1/ stocky plants in pots, but old plants can be lifted on the approach 

 / I of cold weather, cut back and taken inside for winter bloom. 

 J 3ingle Dwarf Compact {Inimitahle Dwarf), bushy plants six to 

 ' eight inches high, covered with beautifully striped and blotched 

 .flowers. In many of them the markings are as beautifully star- 

 shaped as in the strains offered as Star Petunia Pkt. 15ctc 



Countess of Ellesmere, deep rose, white throat " Sets 



Finest Striped and Blotched " 5cts 



Nyctaginiflora, pure white " Sets 



Fine mixed " Sets 



Double mixed " SOcts 



LARGE FLOWER.ING PETUNIAS 



Large Flowered mixed Pkt. lOcts 



Choicest Large Flowered mixed " 15cts 



Fringed and Stained mixed, large flowered, very desirable " 20ct8 

 Superbissima mixed. The flowers are of immense size, superbly col- 

 ored, and the open throats are beautifully veined. We have care- 

 fully compared other strains sold as Giants of California, etc., and 

 have found none superior, and most of them not equal to our strain 



of this magnificent variety Pkt. 25cts 



Brilliant Rose, exceedingly large, beautiful flowers of the brightest and yet 

 delicate rose color. One of the finest varieties in cultivation, and comes true 



from seed - P^t. 36cts 



Grandiflora Robusta H. pi. . dwarf, of robust growth, forming a compact, up- 

 right, branched bush about ten inches in height and fourteen inches in width, 

 with large, double flowers in all shades of colors existing in petunias.Pkt.36cts 

 Double Fringed Brilliant Rose, bears large, exceedingly double and fringed 



flowers of the most brilliant rose color. Very desirable Pkt. 36cts 



Extra Double Fringed, many colors, beautifully fringed, a good percentage 

 double ■ Pkt. 35ct8 



'T^l^ ....... 12*, XT^Mcs «-k ^1-k ^4-1 {Lantern Plant). Plants about 



l^rVySSLllS H rCLlACneil two feet high when well grown, pro- 

 ducingCrom the axis of each leaf one or more large, brilliant red colored seed 

 pods, which are suggestive in form and color of a Japanese lantern These con- 

 tain bright, cherry-like fruit which is useful for making pi-eserves. A strik- 

 ingly beautiful, decorative plant. It grows readily to a fruiting size the first 

 year from seed Pkt. lOcts 



