D. M. FERRY & CO., DETROIT, MICH. 
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Centaurea 
Centaureas embrace some foliage 
plants but are more generally 
known for their hardy flowering 
annuals which include some of 
our most graceful and showy garden flowers that have long been 
favorites for cutting. The tall slender straight or slightly 
branching plants with narrow leaves thrive well in common gar¬ 
den soil. They produce bright colored single and double heads 
of flowers on long graceful stems and some sorts are fragrant. 
Annual Varieties Cultivated for Their Flowers 
Sow seed in early spring in hotbed and transplant to open 
ground or sow in open ground as soon as the weather is warm and 
settled. Cover seed about one-fourth inch deep; thin three or four 
inches apart. Fine for bedding or borders. The young plants 
are very sensitive to wet, and care should be taken to prevent 
water standing on the leaves. 
Cyanus. ( Bachelor'a Button , Corn Flower ) A well known, hardy 
border plant, also called “bluebottle” and “ragged sailor,” which 
does best in carefully prepared gravelly soil. If seed is sown as 
soon as the ground is fit in the spring and the flowers picked so as 
to prevent the plant exhausting itself by seeding, it will furnish 
a profusion of bright blue, purple, white or pink single flowers 
from July until late in the autumn. Hardy annual; plant one to 
two feet high. Mixed. «)/.. 20c.Pkt. 5c. 
Double Mixed ( Bachelor's Button ) Produces larger, more globular 
flower-heads than the common variety. Oz. 20c.Pkt. 5c. 
Odorata (Sweet Sultan ) An old fashioned hardy annual about 
eighteen inches high, with long-stemmed, sweet scented, light 
purple flowers.Pkt. 10c. 
Marguerite. A most desirable, sweet scented Centaurea, producing 
on long stems finely laciniated, white flowers, about as large as 
a carnation, and which remain fresh and beautiful for a long 
time after cutting. Hardy annual; about eighteen inches high. 
Oz. SI.00..Pkt. 5c. 
Imperials Mixed. An excellent sweet scented variety, also called 
Sweet Sultan. The flowers are finely laciniated and are about the 
size of a carnation. They have long stems and keep well after 
cutting. Colors range through white, rose, lilac, purple and yellow. 
Hardy annual; about eighteen inches high. Oz. 75c.Pkt. 10c. 
Perennial Varieties Cultivated for Foliage 
Seed should be sown under glass and the young plants grown in 
pots or boxes until settled warm weather, when tney may be set 
about one foot apart where wanted for borders or "bedding. In 
southern latitudes seed may also be sown outdoors in fall. 
Candidissima. Sometimes called Dusty Miller. Ornamental plants 
of great beauty; foliage deeply cut, silvery white and densely 
covered with white hairs. Half hardy perennial, about one foot 
high.Pkt. 10c. 
Gymnocarpa. This is also called Dusty Miller. Valuable because 
of its finely cut silvery gray foliage and graceful drooping habit 
of growth. Half hardy perennial; one and one-half to two feet 
hign. Oz. 65c. Pkt. 10c. 
Chrysanthemum, Mousing Star 
Centaurea Cyanus (Bachelor’s Button) 
. 1 These outdoor 
Chrysanthemum «*£?£ 
are showy and effective for bedding or borders in the 
garden and desirable for cut flowers. Plants become 
more bushy and shnpely if pinched back in early 
growth and the practice of disbudding will result in 
much larger flowers. These annuals are not the winter 
flowering sorts sold by florists and which are propa¬ 
gated only by division of roots. 
Early Blooming Garden Sorts 
Seed may be sown in the open ground after danger of 
frost is over and the seedlings thinned eight or ten Inches 
apart, but the best results come from sowing under 
cover early in May, and transplanting the young plants 
to open border. Height one and one-half to two feet. 
Morning Star. Very handsome, large, single flowers, 
bright yellow with deeper center; excellent for cutting 
and desirable for both spring and fall markets. Pkt. 10c. 
Carinatum Eclipse. Pure golden yellow, with a bright 
purplish scarlet ring or center on the ray florets, the 
disc being dark brown; very striking.*.Pkt. 5c. 
Coronarium, double white. Very double white flowers, 
with petals rertexedand imbricated. Pkt. 5c. 
Coronarium, double yellow. Very attractive, rich golden 
yellow double flowers, about one inch across; abund¬ 
antly produced. Pkt. 5c. 
Mixed. The choicest Carinatum and Coronarium varieties, 
both single and double.Pkt. 5c. 
Later and Taller Fall Blooming Sorts 
This class is quite distinct from the early blooming 
garden sorts and in northern latitudes usually does not 
bloom the first year unless started indoors very early. In 
southern latitudes seed may be sown outdoors either in 
spring or fall. Height two to three feet. 
Japonicum, fl. pi. The Japanese double sorts have very 
beautiful fringe-like flowers, usually combining white 
with tints of yellow and red. Well adapted to the 
southern states and under favorable conditions blooms 
freely in the Nort h Half hardy perennial_Pkt. 25c. 
Indicum, fi. pi. Very double India or Chinese sorts with 
incurved petals, mixed colors. Half hardy perennial; 
desirable as pot plant but sown more generally outdoors 
in the South, and succeeds well under favorable con¬ 
ditions in the North.Pkt. 25c. 
Superb Mixed. Seed from fine Chinese and Japanese 
double varieties; half hardy perennial. Pkt. 25c. 
CHEIRANTHUS CHEIRI— (Bee Wallflower) 
CHEIRANTHUS MARITIMUS — (See Virginian Stock) 
