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D. M. FERRY & CO., DETROIT, MICH. 
Multiflora Dwarf Perpetual, Mixed. A valuable addition to 
our list of dowers, especially so because of the ease with 
which fine blooming plants can be raised from seed. Plants 
under ordinary care will commence to flower when six inches high and 
two months old, and will continue to grow and bloom until they form 
compact bushes about sixteen inches high, well covered with flowers. 
The different plants will give flowers of varying shades of color. Tender 
perennial; blooming the first year. Pkt. 15c. 
Salpiglossis 
Very showy bedding or border plants with 
richly colored, funnel-shaped flowers which 
_ are purple, scarlet, crimson, yellow, buff, 
blue or almost black, beautifully marbled and pencilled. The seed may 
be sown indoors by the middle of March, or later, or maybe sown out¬ 
doors in early spring; useful for cutting. Blooms from August to Oc¬ 
tober. Half hardy annual; about two feet high. 
Fine Mixed. Hybrids. One of our most easily grown annuals affording 
long stemmed flowers, desirable for cutting, and in many beautiful 
shades and markings. Oz. 50c. Pkt. 5c. 
Large Flowering Mixed. This hybrid mixture is a notable improvement 
on the ordinary variety in that the plants are more compact in growth 
and the flowers are much larger in size and more richly colored and 
veined..P kt - 
Salvia 
(Flowering Sage) Among the most brilliantly colored 
of garden flowers and extremely useful for bedding; 
also valuable for pot culture. Blooms are borne in 
long spikes well above the foliage and are of fiery 
red, crimson or blue, continuing in flower a long time. Start early in 
heat and transplant into light soil one to two feet apart. Tender peren¬ 
nials, but bloom the first season; height one and one-half to three feet. 
Splendens. Sold also as “Splendens Bonfire.” Large, brilliant scarlet 
flowers are in these plants afforded a rich, dark green background or 
dense foliage. This variety is most generally used in parks and on 
extensive lawns, as in growth it is more vigorous than the more dwarf 
varieties. One of the most striking and effective bedding plants in culti¬ 
vation. Oz. $2.00. Pkt. 10c. 
Patens One of the finest blue flowers known; not as well suited for bedding 
as the other varieties of salvia, but very attractive in the mixed border. 
Height, one and one-half to two feet. Pkt. 15c. 
Fireball Many strains of Salvia Splendens have been offered under 
different names with the claim that they are larger flowered or more 
floriferous than the old type. We have found none of them more dis¬ 
tinctly valuable than this strain in which the plant is more uniformly 
dwarf, affording a magnificent profusion of large and brilliant scarlet 
flower spikes which come into bloom nearly two weeks earlier than most 
sorts and remain in fine condition until late in the fall. We strongly 
recommend it as a decided improvement. The plant averages only about 
two feet high. 10c * 
r% •J No twining plant in cultivation surpasses this in graceful 
beauty of foliage. Indispensable to florists as its hard 
texture enables it to be kept without wilting several 
days after being cut. The seed germinates very slowly. The process 
may be hastened somewhat by soaking the seed in hot. water for ten 
hours before planting, but even then it is often six or eight weeks before 
the plants make their appearance. Tender perennial climber, ten feet 
high. Oz. 50c.Pkt. 5c. 
C Retusus trimaculatus. The 
ocnizantnus large flow er spikes are de¬ 
cidedly superior in size of bloom and brilliancy 
of coloring. Petals bright yellow with margins 
and tube of purple-rose, shading from lighter 
to darker shades. Hardy annual; about 
twenty inches high. Also known as Butterfly 
Flower or Poor Man’s Orchid. Pkt. 15c. 
1 ( Antir - 
Snapdragon 
plant with dark, glossy leaves and long spikes 
of curiously shaped, brilliantly colored flowers 
with finely marked throats. Snapdragons have 
been much improved of late years by careful 
selection, and will blossom the first season from 
seed sown in spring, especially if under frames 
and transplanted. If early bloom is desired, 
sow the seed in August or September and 
cover the plants with a mulch on the approach 
of cold weather. These may be transplanted 
into pots and flowered in the house. Give 
them the same temperature and treatment as 
geraniums and carnations. Tender perennialj 
one and one-half to two feet high. 
Majus album. Pure white, light yellow 
throat. Pkt* 5c. 
Majus brilliant. Crimson, yellow and 
white throat. 5c. 
Majus Delila. lted'dish-violet, white 
throat. 5c. 
Fine Mixed. Includes all of the best m 
colors. Oz. 30c. 5c. 
Salvia 
