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



PETUNIA 



Petunias are unsurpassed for massing in oeds. 

 Their richness of color, duration of bloom and 

 easy culture will always render them popular. 

 In some strains the flower is very broad, meas- 

 uring four or five inches across; there •ft.re types 

 with the flowers deeply fringed, others with star- 

 like markings radiating from the throat and ex- 

 tending nearly or quite to tne outer margin of 

 the blossom; others with full, double flowers. 

 The colors range from white to deep red-purple, 

 and are variously striped and barred. Petunias 

 are largely useful for massing against shrubbery, 

 for they make a flowery undergrowth with 

 almost no care. Some of the modern improved 

 varieties are very, choice plants, having been 

 wonderfully brought up from the same species 

 which were in use twenty-five years ago. The 

 full, double Petunias do not produce seeds, so 

 that to procure double flowers we must use the 

 seed of single flowers which have been carefully 

 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 propor- 

 tion of double flowers as any. 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 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 

 method is to sow seeds in late summer or early fall, and to 

 grow stocky plants in pots, but old plants can be lifted on the 

 approach of cold weather, cut back and taken inside for win- 

 ter bloom. 



Single Dwarf Compact ^Inimitable Dwarf), bushy plants six 

 to eight inches in height, covered with beautifully striped 



and blotched flowers Pkt. 15ct8 



Countess of Ellesmere, deep rose, white throat. . . " 5ct8 



Finest Striped and Blotched " Sets 



Nyctaginiflora, pure white " Sets 



Fine mixed " Sets 



Double mixed " aocts 



LARGE FLOWERING PETITNIAS. 



Large Flowered mixed Pkt. lOcts 



Choicest Large Flowered mixed '' 15cts 



Fringed and Stained mixed, large flowered, very 



desirable " SOcts 



Superbissima, mixed. The flowers are of immense size, su- 

 perbly colored, and the open throats are beautifully veined. 

 We have cai'ef ally compared other strains sold as Giants of 

 Cahfornia, etc., and have found none superior, and most of 

 them not equal to our strain of this magnificent vari- 

 ety Pkt. 26cts 



Brilliant Rose, exceedingly beautiful, large flowers of the 

 brightest rose color. A distinct color in Petunias. One of 



'^ the finest varieties in cultivation, and comes true from 

 seed Pkt. aScts 



Qrandiflora Robusta fl. pi., dwarf, of robust growth, form- 

 ing a compact, upright, 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. 25ct8 



Double Fringed Brilliant Rose, bears large, exceedingly 

 double flowers of the most brilliant rose color. Very desir- 

 able Pkt. 35ct8 



Extra Double Fringed, many colors, beautifully fringed, a 

 good percentage double » Pkt. SScts 



