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D. M. FERRY & CO’S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
Nasturtium 
easily gr- 
with its large shield-shaped leaves and beautifully irregular dowers having long 
spurs and brilliantly colored petals. In favorable soil flowers are produced in 
abundance throughout the season. Seed is usually sown outdoors as soon as the 
weather is warm and settled, in the row where the plants are to remain. Well 
pulverized soil, perferably well drained and moderately rich, should be used and the seed covered with about one inch of fine 
soil firmly pressed down. A sunny situation is essential for free blooming. If the soil is very rich the plants give a large 
amount of foliage but few flowers.* For earlier blooming, start indoors and transplant to the open ground after danger of frost 
is over. Much used for window boxes. Nasturtiums are usually free from insects of any kind. 
j-v c \r • .• (Tropreolum minor) The flowers 
Uwart Varieties are very brilliant, and attractive. 
Plants evenly dwarf and are often used for a border. 
When about two inches high, thin so as to give each 
plant about one foot of room. Hardy annual; about one 
root high. 
Aurora. Light reddish-orange, veined with car¬ 
mine. Oz. 16c. Pkt. 5c. 
Bronze Colored. Bronze-orange. Oz. 16c. “ 5c. 
Crimson. Dark crimson. Oz. 15c. 44 5c. 
Elmpreis of India. Small, compact plant; deep scar¬ 
let flowers: very dark foliage. Oz. 15c. 44 5 C . 
King Theodore. Scarlet maroon or brown-red 
flowers. Oz. 15c. 44 5c. 
Pearl. Pale yellow. Oz. 15c. 44 5 C . 
Rose. A warm rose-pink. Oz. 15c. " 5 C . 
Scarlet. Scarlet-orange. Oz. 15c. .... . 44 5c. 
Schilling’s Striped. Bright yellow’, maroon blotches. 
Oz. 15c. “ 5c. 
Yellow. Rich golden yellow. Oz. 15c. 44 5 C . 
Mixed Dwarf. Oz. 15c: % Lb. 30c; Lb. 85c. 44 5c. 
T* \r • ,• (Tropreolum Lobhianum) The 
1 railing V anctics Lobbianum differs from the 
common tall, climbing or running nasturtium in being 
a little smaller in leaf, more compact in growth, more 
floriferous and having richer, more varied colored 
flowers. When about two inches high thin to six inches 
apart. Give some support to the vines as soon as they 
begin to run and they will usually grow six to eight feet 
during the season. Fine for covering arbors and trel¬ 
lises. Half hardy annual. 
Bright Yellow. Yellow’ with carmine stain. Oz. 15c; 
V*\ Lb. 50c. Pkt. 5c. 
Brilliant, rntense scarlet-red, dark foliage. Oz 20c; 
Va Lb. 50c. 44 5c. 
Chestnut Brown. Rich red maroon. Oz. 15c. 44 5c. 
Giant of Battles. Sulphur, red blotches. Oz. 20c.. 44 5c. 
Hemisphiericum. Straw’, blotched and suffused 
scarlet-orange; very large foliage, very strong 
growing, usually twelve to fifteen feet high. 
Oz. 15c; J4 Lb. 40c. 44 5 C . 
Nasturtium 
Jupiter. Very large, deep goldeu-yellow’ flow’ers; very large 
foliage, verv strong growing, usually twelve to fifteen feet 
high; free blooming. Oz. 15c; 14 Lb. 40c. Pkt. 5c. 
King of the Blacks. Flowers of crimson-maroon, with darker 
markings. Oz. 20c; Ya Lb. 50c. Pkt. 5c. 
Nicotiana, Affinis 
Light Yellow. Yellow with maroon stain. Oz. 20c; 
14 Lb. 50c. pkt. 5c. 
Queen Wilhelmina. Foliage variegated, being marbled 
and veined with light green and white. Flow’ers rosy 
scarlet. Oz. 20c. 44 5 C . 
Rose. Bright, distinct and attractive. Oz. 20c; Ya Lb. 50c. 44 5c. 
Spitfire. Bright, fiery scarlet flowers; very floriferous. 
Oz. 15c; J4 Lb. 50c.. 44 5c. 
Mixed Trailing. Lobbianum varieties. A wide range 
of colors and shades. Oz. 15c; Yi Lb 25c; Lb. 75c. 44 5c. 
Madame Gunter's Hybrid Nasturtiums The 
flowers are striped or blotched with shades of red on 
yellow and orange ground, forming a combination of 
exceeding brilliancy and beauty. About four feet 
high. Half hardy annual. Oz. 15c; 14 Lb. 40c. 44 5c. 
Chameleon Nasturtiums Almost every shade of 
color and marking known to nasturtiums; continually 
changing from day to day. A very attractive strain. 
Dwarf Chameleon. I Oz. 20c; Lb. 50c. 44 5c. 
Trailing Chameleon. Oz. 15c; 14 Lb. 40c. 44 5c. 
Nicotiana 
Handsome bedding plants of the tobac¬ 
co family, valuable for long and free 
blooming. Flow’ers salver-shaped, with 
long tubular corollas. Seed may be sow r n outdoors when ground 
is warm and dry or for earlier blooming start in boxes indoors 
early in spring and transplant to open ground after danger of 
frost is past. Cover the fine seed with one-eighth inch of 
soil. Half hardv annuals: about three feet high. 
Affinis. Flow’ers large, white and fully expanded only in even¬ 
ing or cloudy days Very fragrant. Oz. 30c. Pkt. 5c. 
Sanderae, mixed. Flowers white, carmine-rose or violet, a little 
smaller than Affinis and unlike it, in full bloom during the 
day. Very floriferous. . .Pkt. 10c. 
NIGELLA —(See Love-in-a-Mist) 
CENOTHERA— (See Priuirose) 
Very pretty, spreading herbaceous plants with 
clover-like leaves and richly colorea blossoms. 
They thrive well in a mixture of loam and sand. Desirable 
for greenhouse decoration, rock work or baskets. Sow seed 
in gentle heat in early spring and when well started transplant 
where they are desired to flower. Half hardy perennial; six 
to nine inches high. 
Rosea. Rose colored or light purple. Pkt. 10c 
