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D. M. Ferry &, Co’s Descriptive Catalogue. 
Zea Maize 
tifully striped with white and green. Half-hardy an¬ 
nual, from Japan; six feet high. 
Zea Japonica, fol. variegatis, striped foliage. 5 
ZINNIA. 
A very showy plant, with large, double flowers, which 
when fully expanded, form hemispherical heads, become 
densely imbricated, and might easily be mistaken for 
Double Zinnia. 
clusters of lilac flowers which continue to open in suc¬ 
cession for a long rime lend the plant a tropical aspect, 
and make it one of the most valuable ornamental foli¬ 
age plants for garden and lawn decoration. Seeds, if 
sown early in spring, in hot-bed, will produce large 
plants by middle of summer. 
Wigandia, caracasana.... .. . 25 
WISTARIA. 
One of the most beautiful 
and rapid growing of hardy 
climbers, growing, when well 
, in good soil, from 
fifteen to twenty-five feet in 
a season. Frequently blooms 
both in spring and fall ; the 
pale blue, pea shaped flowers 
are borne in long, drooping 
clusters similar in size and 
shape to a bunch of grapes. 
It thrives best in a light, rich 
soil, and should be trained 
against a south wall or veran¬ 
da. Seeds should be sown in 
mellow loam early in the 
spring; if a green-house or 
hot-bed is available, start in winter, and when plants 
area foot high, transplant into situations where they 
are to remain. 
Wistaria, magnifies.20 
XICRANTHEMUM. 
Of neat, compact habit, free flowering, and of the 
easiest cultivation. The leaves are covered with a sil¬ 
very down, and the flowers are pure white, deep purple 
and yellow, single and double. If gathered before fully 
opened, and dried in the shade, they will retain their 
beauty for years. They make fine winter bouquets 
alone or mixed with grasses. Sow in spring, and thin 
to one foot apart. Hardy annual ; one foot high. 
Xeranthemum, mixed.10 
^EA Itl AlZE-(Striped Japanese 
Corn). 
An ornamental foliage plant, of much beauty. It is a 
soccics corn, with large foliage, the leaves being beau* 
Wistaria. 
Zinnia. 
dwarf dahlias. 
The colors run 
through all the 
shades of car¬ 
mine, lilac, 
scarlet,purple, 
crimson, yel¬ 
low, to pure 
white. If any 
single blossoms 
appear, they 
should be at 
once pulled up. 
Sow jthe seed 
early in springi 
in open ground 
and transplant 
to one and a half feet apart, in good, rich soil, or start 
under glass for early blooming. Half-hardy annual; one 
and a half feet high. 
By careful selection and several years' cultivation^ 
the European florists have obtained the following 
distinct varieties of this valuable plant. The seeds 
we offer can be entirely relied upon to reproduce the 
different colors , almost without sporting. 
Zinnia, double carmine.. 
scarlet .10 
purple.10 
crimson .10 
orange.10 
lilac.. 
deep scarlet.10 
deep purple.10 
alba plenissima, pure white...10 
choice mixed, very fine.xo 
mixed . 5 
elegans plenissima, Emperor Francis 
Joseph, a new, extra double variety of supc- 
riorquality; deep purple upon orange ground; 
beautiful.. 
Haageana fl. pi., a perfectly double variety, 
of deep orange color, finely margined with 
bright golden yellow; beautifully imbricated, 
representing a depressed globular cone.10 
Darwini, fl. pi., a distinct class of zinnias of 
most beautiful form and every conceivable 
shade of color. There arc four classes known 
as nana comfacta, major; pyramidalisand 
vitata y about twelve colors in each class. 
The seed we offer comprises a mixture ,of all 
the above classes.. 
