00 D. M. FERRY A CO’S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
Fuchsia, double, finest mixed, from the finest 
specimens .25 
“ double, white corollas, very beautiful. .25 
GAIIXARDIA. 
Showy and universally admired perennials, flowering 
the first year, and among the gayest ornaments of sum¬ 
mer flowering beds. 
remove to cover. They will blossom in the succeeding 
spring. The following are all very choice varieties, and 
seed sparingly. 
Geranium (Pelargonium; diadematum, splendid 
variety .'. so 
(Pelargonium) Odier, five petals blotched .. .50 
fancy, splendid mixed . 25 
double, finest double varieties mixed. 50 
Zonale, scarlet, mixed sorts . 25 
“ white leaved varieties, mixed. 25 
“ golden and bronze, magnificent... . 25 
apple scented, very fragrant . 25 
GIUA. 
Hardy annual, one to two feet high; grows in almost 
any situation, in beds or in rockery. Delicate in leaf 
and flower. 
Gilia, capitata, dense, globular heads of clustered 
blossoms of azure blue. Two feet high. 5 
“ capitata, tricolor, flowers blue, with yellow 
and purple center. Sow in masses. One 
foot high. 5 
GI«ADI01,US. 
Magnificent plants, with sword like leaves, and long 
spikes of flowers, of every conceivable color and shade. 
The varieties are now numbered almost by thousands, 
each year bringing forth new and choice selections which 
have been produced from seed, which is the only method 
of obtaining new varieties. The plant and flower arc 
from a bulb. To produce from seed a bulb of sufficient 
Gaillardia, Picta, Lorenziana. 
Gaillardia, picta, one foot high; flowers crimson 
and yellow. 5 
“ picta, Lorenziana, one of the most striking 
and valuable of the annual novelties intro¬ 
duced of late years. For general decorative 
purposes, as well as for bouquets, it is in¬ 
valuable, its gay colored flowers being 
abundantly produced from July until frost 
sets in. In a strict botanical sense, it is 
not double, but it is so entirely different 
from the old single Gaillardia, that the 
blooms would scarcely be recognized as 
belonging to the same species. The colors 
offered (in mixture) are sulphur and 
golden yellow, orange, claret and amar¬ 
anth, and are produced quite as freely as 
any of the older sorts.10 
grandiflora, the largest and most beautiful 
flowers of the species; blossoms scarlet 
and orange.10 
GERANIUM-(Pelargonium). 
Probably the Geranium is better known and more uni¬ 
versally admired than any other plant grown. The con¬ 
stant succession and durability of bloom till frost comes, 
the brilliancy of the scarlet and other colors, and the 
exquisite markings of the leaves of some of the varieties, 
render them very desirable for pot culture and bedding. 
No garden seems complete without a bed of them, and 
in every collection of conservatory or parlor plants we 
are sure to find the Geranium. Propagation by seed is 
the only sure way to obtain new varieties. Sow in 
March, in gentle heat, in well drained pots. Water 
moderately, and as soon as the third leaf appears, pot 
singly in two inch crocks, exchanging for larger ones 
as the plants require. As soon as the weather will permit, 
plunge the pots in open border, and on approach of frost, 
Geranium, Zonalc. 
