2 D. M. FERRY & GO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



FERRY'S SEEDS .. 



"AT THE STORE AROUND THE CORNER" 



ACCESSIBILITY. Although we fill many thousands of mail orders every season our chief means of 

 distributing Ferry's seeds is through the hands of first class local dealers throughout the United States and 

 Canada. There is scarcely a responsible retail merchant anywhere that cannot supply your needs fully and 

 immediately with the minimum amount of trouble and the maximum amount of pleasure and profit in the results. 

 Market gardeners and others planting large areas have come to depend confidently upon our seeds sold in bulk. 

 They know that purity of type results in large crops of the finest fruits and vegetables and that it pays to plant 

 only the best. Our market gardener trade increases every year and we seldom lose a customer. The profes- 

 sionals who make their living by gardening — in other words the experts — know and use Ferry's seeds. It is no 

 wonder then that there is a steady increase in the number of those who buy Ferry's packet seeds for smaller 

 gardens. 



COMMISSION PACKETS. There must, of course, be a good reason for this general confidence in our 

 packet seeds. No product can maintain a prominent place in public esteem for sixty years unless it possesses 

 genuine intrinsic merit. Ferry's seeds have become a household necessity because they were the best obtainable. 

 It has been to our financial advantage 

 to supply satisfactory goods because 

 having long ago reached the territorial 

 limits of that portion of the continent 

 lying north of the Rio Grande, we must 

 sell to the same people year after year. 

 We cannot afford to lose our well earned 

 position in public esteem. When you 

 buy a packet of Ferrj^'s you can be sure 

 that we know as far as it is possible to 

 foresee that the seeds will be of satis- 

 factory vitality and will produce good 

 results. 



"FRESH EVERY YEAR" means 

 that our packets are put up especially 

 for the season in which they are sold. 

 We do nat send out packets a second 

 time. Our traveling salesmen visit the 

 trade at least once every year. All un- 

 sold papered seeds are then taken up 

 and shipped back to Detroit and none of 

 our packets are ever on sale a second 

 season. Therefore you can be just as 

 sure of the condition of seeds offered in a 

 newly opened "commission" box as of 

 those received directly frorn us by mail. 

 The purchaser receives in a sealed 

 envelope fresh seeds that bear the im- 

 print of the largest garden seed house in 

 the world, seeds that have directly 

 behind them the most complete organ- 

 ization, the greatest experience and the 

 finest facilities ever devoted to the pro- 

 duction and distribution of garden seeds. 



EXPERIENCE. Our splendid 

 organization enables us to specialize. In 

 a smaller seed house which includes other 

 lines than garden seeds one may be 

 familiar with more kinds of work but he 

 cannot know as much about any one 

 thing as if he gave that thing his whole 

 attention. In a large organization 

 a man tends to find his proper work and 

 having found it to become its master. 

 Hence at every point our business is 

 directed by men especially fitted by 

 nature and training for the duties they 

 perform. Moreover we have been sup- 

 plying garden seeds for sixty-seven years. 

 Multiply our huge annual volume by the 

 time we have been seed merchants and 

 you can readily see we have had the 

 greatest experience of any garden seed 

 producers now in business. 



In a word, we have every facility 

 and incentive to meet your needs. Buy 

 Ferry's seeds of "the store around the 

 corner" and you will become one of our 

 army of staunch friends. 



