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D. M. FERRY & CO’S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
m • (Dianthus Caryophyllus) '•Carnation,” “Pink,” “Clove Pink,” “Florists Pink,” are 
■ 21 O ■ 1 nam< * s applied by different people to the same or to different plants of several species 
V/dl rn.rn.GL LJLvJJLl. a * w ®*} as to hybrids between them. They are all easily grown from seed and very free 
blooming, the ffowers being bright colored and with a most delicious clove-like fra¬ 
grance. Some of the varieties are very desirable for the professional llorist and make line house plants for the ama¬ 
teur. Others do best in the open ground and are among the most desirable of garden plants. Halt hardy perennial. 
Large Flowering Carnations Best Suited for Pot Culture 
The sorts most grown by florists who are constantly striving to produce new varieties. While choice varieties are propa¬ 
gated by cuttings, planters may get some as good from the seed we offer and a large proportion double and very beautirul. 
Double Perpetual Flowered Mixed. All ex¬ 
ceedingly beautiful variety producing very 
double flowers of various shades and 
colors. Seed saved from choicest double 
flowers. Pkt. 25c. 
Fine Double Selves. Seeds from named 
varieties grown in the open ground and 
likely to give some flowers fully equal to 
the best greenhouse sorts. Pkt. 10c. 
Fine Double Striped. Seed from fine named 
striped varieties. Pkt. 15c. 
Choicest White Ground. Seed from choice, 
large flowered, named varieties, with nearly 
white petals bordered or tinted with red 
or purple. Sure to give large and beauti¬ 
ful flowers. Pkt. 35c. 
Extra Choice Double Mixed. Seed from an 
immense collection of choice French, Ger¬ 
man, Italian and English named sorts. 
Certain to produce a large proportion of 
double and finely formed and colored 
flowers in almost endless variety of shades 
and markings. Oz. §2.50. Pkt. 15c. 
Choice Double Mixed. A mixture contain 
ing many of the very choicest colors and 
types... Pkt. 10c. 
Picotee, Extra Fine Double Mixed. Extra fine 
seed from named varieties, petals spotted 
and splashed; sure to give flowers of splen¬ 
did quality in good proportion_ Pkt. 25c. 
Varieties Adapted to both Pot and 
Outdoor Culture 
For outdoor culture a rich compost is indis¬ 
pensable to the production or fine carna¬ 
tions: there is scarcely any plant to which 
a congenial soil is of so much importance. 
Early Double Snow White. A splendid sort 
for either pot culture or the garden. The 
plants are vigorous, erect and bushy in 
growth; come into flower very early and 
furnish abundant bloom for a long time. 
The flowers are large, double, clear white 
and wonderfully fragrant.Pkt. 25c. 
Marguerite. The plants of this wonderfully 
tine strain may be made to bloom in four 
months. The flowers are large, double, very 
fragrant and appear in very attractive 
shades of color. One of the best “pinks” 
in cultivation. Oz. $1.50.Pkt. 5c. 
Double Dwarf Vienna Mixed. Large flower¬ 
ed and comes into bloom early, producing 
flowers of many colors and beautiful mark¬ 
ings. Oz. $1.50.Pkt. 10c. 
Double Red Grenadin. Plants are a little 
smaller and less erect than White Grenadin 
. but come into bloom a little earlier and are 
fully as floriferous. Flowers double, fra¬ 
grant and of rich, deep red color. .Pkt. 15c. 
__ ( Ricinus) Tall majestic plants for lawns; with leaves of glossy green, brown or bronzed 
V^ctSLOl 063.ll lneta Me hue an( l l° n K spikes of scarlet, or of green, prickly fruit. Makes a rapid, vigorous 
growth in rich soil. Tender annual; six to fifteen feet high. 
Zanzibaricnsis. Wonderfully vigorous, from ten to Fifteen feet high. Leaves have a brilliant luster, measuring about 
thirty inches across, ranging in color from bright green to deep bronze. Mixed Varieties. Oz. 15c .Pkt. 5c. 
Sanguineus. ( Tricolor ) Blood red stalks with red venation in leaves; height about six feet. Oz. 15c. “ 5c. 
Castor Bean, Mixed. A desirable mixture of all the named varieties. Oz. 15c. 44 5 C . 
Carnation Marguerite 
\ • A class of plants having colored foliage and in which the innumerable small flowers and seed 
■ OIAC13 vessels together with their supports form a very brilliantly colored mass, sometimes gracefully 
^Vli/dlCl arranged like plumes and sometimes more dense, being corrugated and frilled at the edge like a 
cock's comb. They form the gayest possible decoration, retaining their brilliant coloring for a 
long time after being cut. Commonly grown out of doors but also adapted for the greenhouse and conservatory. Half 
hardy annuals. Plant in light, rich soil and give plenty of moisture. 
Pyramidalis plumosa mixed. The plant is over two feet high, and is covered with long, brilliantly colored and 
gracefully formed plumes in red, yellow or violet..Pkt. 5 c. 
Triumph of the Exposition. Plant of pyramidal form, bearing many exceedingly graceful, feather-like spikes of intensely 
brilliant crimson color. Height two to three feet .Pkt. 10c. 
Variegated. A strain between the plumosa and cockscomb types in which the pluiAes are broadened at the top; vari¬ 
egated and striped in red and yellow.. |q c . 
Japan. Plant, grows two and one-half to three feet high and is covered with spikes which are finely crested and of brilliant 
colors usually variegated crimson and deep yellow. .‘.Pkt. lOc. 
Dwarf and Tree Cockscomb Types 
Giant Empress. This beautiful dwarf plant has dark red Dwarf Rose. Large rose-colored combs. Pkt 10c 
leaves and forms immense bright, crimson combs.Pkt. 10c. n WAr f Yellow Laree velWenmh* ’ * 
Glasgow Prize. (President Thiers) Plant resembles an im- Uwar * Yellow. Large >ei low combs. 10c. 
mensecomb, densely corrugated; brilliant, deep purplish Dwarf Mixed. A mixture of the best dwarf growing sorts. 
red.Pkt. 10c. Oz. $1.75 .Pkt. 5c. 
