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



Petunia 





Petunias. 



Petunias are unsurpassed for massing in 

 beds. Their richness of color, duration of 

 bloom and easy culture will always render 

 them popular. The modern improved varieties are 

 \ery choice plants, having been wonderfully brought 

 up from the same species which were in use twenty- 

 h\e years ago. 



The full, double petunias do not produce seeds, so 

 that to procure double flowers we must use the seed 

 of single tlowers which have been carefullv fertiUzed 

 by pollen from the double ones. The seed we offer 

 is from the result of careful hybridization, and can 

 be depended upon for giving as large a proportion 

 of double tiowers as any. 



In some strains the flowers are very large, meosur- 



ing four or five inches a-cross: 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 blo-ssom.: again, 



others have full, double tlowei-s. 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 eighteen inches apart. AVhen well srarted. they grow 



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



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



blooming the first year. 



Petunias are easily grown under glass in wint^'r. The 

 best method is to sow seeds in late summer er 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 winter bloom. 



Single Dwarf Compact, i Inimitable Dirarf). Bushy plants 

 six to eight inches high, covered with beautifully striped 

 blotched flowers. In many of them the markings are as 

 beautifully star shaped as in the strains offered as Star 



Petunia Pkt. locts 



Countess of Ellesmere. Deep rose, white throat, very small. " ,5cts 



Finest 5triped and Blotched ■ Sets 



Nyctasfiniflora, Pure white •• 3cts 



Fine mixed ■■' 5cts 



Double Mixed ■ 30cts 



LARGE FLOWERING PETUNIAS 



Larg:e Flowered mixed .. ,...Pkt. lOcts 



Choicest Large Flowered mixed ' locts 



Fnnred and Stained Mixed, large flowered: very de.sirable. "' 30cts 



Superbissima mixed. The flowers are of immense size, suberbly 



v.)io]ed and the open throats are beautifully veined. We have 



Iv comj)ared other strains sold as Giants of California, etc., and have 



fcunau^n( superior and most of them not equal to our strain of this mag- 



njficient vaiiety Pkt. 3octs 



Brilliant Rose. Exceedingly large, beautiful flowers of the brightest and yet 

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



from, seed Pkt. ?33cts 



General Dodds. 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 Genei-al 

 Dnddb as a vigorous and very persistent bloomer and think there are very few 

 rderi plants that wLLl make so good and satisfactory a display. . . . Pkt. lOcts 

 Qrand;t1ora Robusta, f5. pi. Dwarf, of robust growth, forming a compact, 

 ux)rjght, branched bust about ten inches in height and fourteen inches in 

 '.\ idrli. with large flowers, many double and in all shades of colors existing 



in Petunias. The latest variety to bloom Pkt. 2.5cts 



Double Fring-ed Brilliant Rose.. Bears large, exceedingly double and fringed 



flowers of the most briJliant rose color. Very desirable .Pkt. 25cts 



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

 double Pkt. 25cts 



