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 

 Ferry's you can be sure 'that we know as far as it is possible to foresee that the seeds will be of satisfactory 

 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 not send out packets a second time. Our traveling salesmen visit the trade at least once 

 every year. All unsold 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 hi a 

 newly opened "commission" box as of those received directly from us by mail. _ The purchaser receives in a 

 sealed envelope fresh seeds that bear the imprint of the largest garden seed house in the world, seeds _ that have 

 directly behind them the most complete organization, the greatest experience and the finest facihties ever 

 devoted to the production and distribution of garden seeds. 



EXPERIENCE. Our splendid organization enables us to speciaHze. 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 supplying 

 garden seeds for sixty-eight years. Multiply our huge annual volume by the time we have been seed inerchants 

 and you can readily see we have had the greatest experience of any garden seed producers now in busmess. 



In a word, we have every faciHty 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. 



