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D. M. FERRY & CO’S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
Petunia 
Petunias are unsurpassed for massing in beds and are often gro 
richness of color, duration of bloom and easy culture will always make them popular. They en¬ 
dure drought exceptionally well. The full, double petunias do not produce seeds. To procure 
double flowers one must iise the seeds saved from single flowers which have been carefully 
fertilized 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 proportion of double flowers as any. 
In some strains the tlowersare very large, measuring four to five inches across; in others, they 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 blotched. 
plant in a warm, open, sunny place. Seeds may be sown directly in the open ground; or for early results the plants may 
be started in cold frame, hot be l or in pots indoors, in a temperature averaging sixty to seventy degrees. Water with a fine 
spray and do not permit the seedlings to dry out. The plants are tender and should not be trusted in the open until danger of 
frost is over. Any good, friable garden soil, well pulverized and in good condition may be used, and the seed covered with 
about one-eighth to one-fourth inch of fine soil firmly Dressed down. The rows should be two feet apart. Thin to eighteen 
inches apart. The plants begin to bloom when small and continue until cut off by frost. Tender perennial, blooming the first 
year; about one and one-half feet high. 
Petunias are also sometimes 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 f.*i 
winter bloom. 
Single Dwarf Compact ( Inimitable Dwarf) Bushy plants only about eight 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. Flowers deep rose, white throat; very small. 44 5c! 
Nyctaginiflora. Pure white flowers, very fragrant; a very floriferous variety. 44 5c. 
Finest Striped and Blotched. Includes striped or blotched flowers in a wide range of colors. Oz. 90c. 44 5c. 
Fine Mixed. An excelledi variety of markings including white, stripes and shades of rose, red and purple. Oz. 50c. 44 5 C . 
Double Mixed. The seed we offer will produce a large percentage of double flowers in a good range of colors. 44 20c. 
LARGE FLOWERING PETUNIAS 
Lurge Flowered Mixed. Plants vigorous and flowers very large; some striped, others self colored. < )z. $1.00... Pkt. 10c. 
Fringed and Stained Mixed. Very attractive, deeply fringed flowers in a variety of colors.. 44 20c. 
Superbissima Mixed. Flowers of immense size, superbly colored with throats beautifully veined. We have carefully Compared 
other strains sold as “Giants of California," etc., and have found none superior and many of them notequal to our strain of 
this magnificent variety.... Pkt. 25c. 
Brilliant Rose. Large flowers of very 
bright, yet deliealeand exceptionally 
attractive rose color. One of the 
finest varieties in cultivation and 
comes true from seed. Pkt. 25c. 
General Dodds. Large, single flowers 
of an exceedingly rich, dark purple 
color. A vigorous and very persist¬ 
ent bloomer and there are few garden 
plants that will make so satisfactory a 
display. Pkt. 10c. 
Grandiflora Robusta, fl. pi. Dwarf, of 
robust growth, forming a compact, 
upright, branched bush about ten 
inches in height and fourteen inches 
in width, with large flowers, many 
double and in all shades of colors 
existing in petunias. The latest of 
the varieties to bloom. Pkt. 25c. 
Double Fringed Brilliant Rose. Large, 
exceedingly double and fringed 
flowers of most brilliant rose color. 
Very desirable. Pkt. 25c. 
Extra Double Fringed. Many colors; 
flowers beautifully fringed. .Pkt. 25c. 
Handsome, half 
r entstemon h a r <i y , herim 
ceous perennials about two feet high 
and very desirable for bedding and 
borders. They usually bloom the first 
year, especially if started early. 
The flowers are bell-shaped or tubu¬ 
lar, an inch and a half long, and are 
borne in racemes or spikes. The 
colors include white and various 
shades of rose and purplish red striped 
with white. Sow outdoors after danger 
of frost is past. It is well to use some 
mulching for protection through 
winter. 
Mixed....Pkt. 10c. 
Peony 
( Pern n i a h e r h a c e a 
Chinensis) Well known 
herbaceous perennial plants which 
may be grown either rrom seed or 
roots. The seed is of very slow growt h, 
and germination may be hastened 
somewhat by cutting or filing care¬ 
fully a notch through the shell of the 
seed, perferablyon the rounding side. 
Rich, well prepared soil should be 
used and the seed covered one-half 
inch deep; keep well moistened and 
at a temperature of 50° to 00°. If the 
seed be sown in a cold frame in 
autumn, the plants will be large 
enough to transplant the following 
spring, and a year later will bloom. 
About three feet high. 
Double Mixed.Pkt. 25c. 
(Peony Roots are listed in our autumn 
Bulb Catalogue.) 
PERIWINKLE— (See Vinca) 
Petunia, Extra Double Fringed 
