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D. M. FERRY & CO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
PETUNIA 
Petunias are unsurpassed for massing iu beds. 
Their richness of color, duration of bloom and 
easy culture will always make them popular. 
The modern improved varieties are very choice, hav¬ 
ing been wonderfully brought up from the same 
species that were grown thirty years ago. 
The full, double petunias do not produce seeds. To 
procure double flowers one must use the seeds saved 
from single flowers which have been carefully fertil¬ 
ized by hand with pollen from the double ones. The 
seed we offer is the result of careful hybridization 
and can be depended upon to give as large a propor¬ 
tion of double flowers as any. 
In some strains the flowers are very large, measur¬ 
ing four to five inches across; in others, tliev are 
deeply fringed; still others have star-like markings 
radiating from the throat and extending nearly or 
quite to the outer margin of the blossom; again, 
others have full, double flowers. 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 When well started they grow almost 
as easily as weeds. The plants begin to bloom when very small 
and continue until cut off by frost. Tender perennial, bloom¬ 
ing 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 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. (Inimitable Ducirf) Bushy plants only 
about ejght inches high, covered with small flowers, generally 
striped or blotched. In many the markings are as beautifully star 
shaped as in the strain offered as “Star'’ petunia.Pkt. 15c. 
Countess of Ellesmere. Deep rose, white throat; very small. “ 5 C 
Nyctaginiflora. Pure white, very fragrant; very floriferous. “ 5 C .* 
Finest Striped and Blotched. Oz. 90c. " 5 C * 
Fine Mixed. An excellent variety of markings. Oz. 50c....! 1 “ 5 C 
Double Mixed. A good percentage of double flowers. “ 20c! 
LARGE FLOWERING PETUNIAS 
Large Flowered Mixed. Very large; Some striped.Pkt. 10c. 
Choicest Large Flowered Mixed. Oz. $1.00. “* 15 c ’ 
Fringed and Stained Mixed. Very attractive. “ 20c. 
Superbissima Mixed. Flowers of immense size, superbly colored with throats 
beautifully veined. We have carefully compared other strains sold as 
(xiants of C all forma,” etc., and have found none superior and many of them 
not equal to our strain of this magnificent variety...pkt. 25c. 
Brilliant Rose. Large flowers of very bright, yet delicate and exceptionally 
attractive rose color. One of the finest varieties in cultivation and comes 
true from seed... Pkt . 25c. 
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 mrst st riking among petunias. A vigorous and 
very persistent Woomer and there are few garden plants that will make so 
satisfactory a display..p kt J 0< / 
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in petunias. 5K !" “I'. ~.° f . . COl ° rS p^1^ 
® riI,iant R° 8e - L ar &e. exceedingly double and fringed flowers 
of most hrdhant rose color. Very desirable.i..Pkt. 25c 
Extra Double Fringed. Many colors; beautifully fringed.Pkt. 25c. 
