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D. M. FERRY & CO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
•w (Periwinkle) These very attractive bushy plants with glossy green foliage produce in abundance handsome 
% / | ^ round or salver shaped single flowers, suitable either for culture in pots or boxes or !• r sumnier betiding 
V and borders. If sown early under glass and transplanted in a warm, sheltered situation will bloom in summer 
and autumn and may be potted for the house before frost. The plants require no trimming, are in con¬ 
tinuous bloom from setting out until frost and are entirely free from the attacksftf insects. These desirable features account 
for the increasing demand for Vincas in parks and private grounds for summer bedding and borders. Tender perennial 
blooming the first season, about fifteen inches high. ’ 
Pure White. Beautiful pure white. Oz. 75c. Pkt. 5c. Rosea Alba. White with crimson eye. Oz. 75c. Pkt. 5 C 
Rosea. Hose with crimson eye; flowers often two inches in diameter. A very desirable window plant. Oz. 75c. “ 5 C * 
Mixed. The above natned varieties mixed. Oz. 75c.... “ 5 C 
VIOLA TRICOLOR— (See Pansy) 
\r* • • ( f'V/e/ronf/iMS maritimus) The plants are of more branching and open habit than the common stocks 
Virginian OlOCK and are very useful for border or edging. Sow early in spring, or for ver / early blooming sow in 
fall or start indoors and transplant. A continual succession of blossoms maybe kept up by sowing at intervals through 
spring and summer. Hardy annual; about nine inches high. 
Red and white, mixed, ( lusters of beautiful single cruciform flowers. Pkt. 5c 
|i pi (Cheiranthus cheiri) An old favorite European garden flower. The long, fragrant terminal 
\/\J o I ItlO'WPt" spikes of the Wallflower when properly grown are very conspicuous in beds and borders Mid are 
C4II1 lv T» vt very useful in making bouquets. Sow seed early in hotbeds and while plants are small prick 
them out into pots and sink in the earth. On approach of cold weather remove the pots to the house and the pl;.n:s will 
bloom all winter. Tender bushy biennial or perennial that will live through the winter in a mild climate; height of plants about 
one and one-half feet. 
Early Brown. Brownish red, fragrant single flowers; large, thick spikes; early. Tender biennial. Oz. 25c. Fkt. 5 C . 
Golden Tom Thumb. Free flowering, of dwarf and compact habit; blossoms single and of an attractive golden yellow color* 
Tender biennial...Fkt. 5 C ] 
Mixed Double. Deliciously fragrant, perfectly double, and combine many shades of color, the orange, purple and chocolate 
predominating. Oz. $2.50. Pkt. jq c 
117*1 i (Echinocystie lobata) This is a useful climber where a rapid and vigorous growth of vine is desired 
W 1IQ L-UCUmDci To cover <>r to screen an unsightly building, there is perhaps no annual climber better adapted for 
the purpose. The vine has abundant foliage and is thickly covered with sprays of small white, fragrant flowers, followed by 
numerous prickly seed pods Sow late in fall or very early in spring. Usually the plants are produced from year to year by 
self sown seed. Hardy annual. Oz. 20c; Lb. $1.50. . Pkt. 5c. 
117 * pi* One of the most beautiful 
Wistaria L^ninensis alKl nip jd growing of the 
hardy perennial climbers. When well established in good 
soil it will often grow fifteen t«> twenty feet during the 
season and frequently blooms both in spring and fall. 
The flowers are very fragrant, single, pale blue, pea- 
shaped and are borne in long, drooping grape-like clusters, 
often over a foot in length. Foliage light green pinnate. 
The seed should be sown in mellow loam early in the 
spring, or in greenhouse or hotbed in winter and when 
plants are one foot high transplanted into permanent 
situations.Pkt. 20c. 
Zinnia 
Sometimes called Youth an 1 Old 
Age. Well known bush-like plants 
producing a profusion of large 
double imbricated flowers, usu¬ 
ally about two inches across, 
borne on stilt stems; much used for bedding and suitable 
for borders and for cutting. There is much satisfaction in 
a bed of Zinnias with their twisted and recurved petalled 
flowers in many bright colors, and when nearly every 
other flower has been killed by frost this plant is still in 
full bloom. Few flowers fire more easily grown or bloom 
more abundantly throughout the season, and the wide 
range of color is not less remarkable than their unusual 
depth and richness. Sow the seed early in spring, in open 
ground in good, rich soil, preferably in rows one and one- 
half feet apart and covering about one-fourth inch deep. 
When the young plants are one to two inches high thin to 
six inches apart. Start under glass for earlier blooming. 
Half hardy annual; tall growing, about one and one-half 
to two feet high. 
Double yellow. Oz. 40c.Pkt. 5c. 
" scarlet. Oz. 40c. 44 5c. 
44 deep red. Oz. 40c. 44 5c. 
44 magenta. Oz. 40c. 44 5c. 
44 orange. Oz. 40c.. 44 5c. 
44 white. Oz. 40c. 44 5c. 
44 black purple. Oz. 40c. 44 5c. 
44 dark crimson. Oz. 40c. 44 5c. 
44 striped or zebra, mixed. Oz. 60c. 44 5c. 
Double choice mixed. Includes the above colors: a very 
line mixture. Oz. 40c; Lb. $4.00.pkt. 5c. 
Lilliput, double mixed. This strain grows about one foot 
high and bears a profusion of comparatively small, very 
double, globular flowers about one inch in diameter, very 
brilliant in color.Pkt. 10c. 
Pompon, double mixed. The globular flowers are fully as 
varied and brilliant in color as the ordinary Zinnia and 
about half its size. Oz. 40c...Pkt. 5c. 
Haagcana, double. Dwarf variety with double flowers of a 
deep orange color, about one and one-quarter inches in 
diameter; line for cut flowers; height one foot.. Pkt. 10c. 
Mexicana Hybrida, variegated. Distinctive in its well- 
formed single flowers of deep maroon and golden yellow, 
strikingly contrasted. Flowers similar to French legion 
of Honor Marigold, but are earlier and more easily grown. 
Hardy annual; one foot high.Pkt. 15c. 
Zinnia 
