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For the convenience of many of our friends we have made the following selections of 
standard and desirable varieties of Vegetable and Flower Seeds which we offer on specially 
favorable terms. 
We are able to offer these collections at the reduced terms, having put them up, ready to 
ship, before our busy season commenced. 
IN NO CASE CAN ANY SUBSTITUTION BE MADE. 
Collection No. i. 
Consisting of twelve packets choice Vegetables, as fol¬ 
lows: One paper each of Beet, Early Blood Turnip 
Improved; Cabbage, I). M. Ferry & Co.’s Premium 
Flat Dutch; Carrot, Long Orange Improved; Cucum¬ 
ber, Improved Long Green ; Lettuce, Ferry’s Early 
Prize Head ; Onion, Large Red Wethersfield; Musk 
Melon, Improved Large Green Nutmeg; Water Melon, 
Ferry’s Peerless; Radish, French Breakfast; Squash, 
Hubbard; Tomato, Livingston’s Perfection; Turnip, D. 
M. Ferry & Co.’s Improved Purple Top Strap Leaved. 
Collection No. 2, 
Affords a fine range of Vegetables for a family garden 
of moderate size. It consists of one packet each of the 
foliowing sorts: Beans, German Wax Black Seeded, 
Beet, Extra Early Egyptian Blood Turnip; Cabbage, 
Early Jersey Wakefield; Cabbage, Fottler’s Early 
Drumhead or Brunswick Short Stem; Carrot, Danver’s; 
Celery, New Golden Heart; Cucumber, Improved 
Long Green, Cucumber, Boston Pickling; Egg Plant, 
D. M. Ferry Co.’s Improved Large Purple; Lettuce, 
Ferry’s Early Prize Head; Musk Melon, Improved Large 
Green Nutmeg; Water Melon, Mountain Sweet; Water 
Melon. D. M. Ferry & Co.’s Peerless; Onion, Large 
Red Wethersfield; Parsnip, Hollow Crown; Peas, Bliss’ 
American Wonder; Pepper. Sweet Mountain; Radish, 
Early White Turnip Rooted; Squash, Early Yellow 
Bush Scallop; Tomato, Livingston’s Favorite; Turnip, 
Early White Flat Dutch Strap Leaved; Turnip, Early 
Yellow Montmagny. 
Collection No. 3, 
Will furnish a family of moderate size with a very com¬ 
plete assortment of Vegetables throughout the season. 
It contains the following : one pint Beans. Golden Wax; 
one pint Beans, Early Red Valentine; one packet Beet, 
Egyptian Blood Turnip; 1 oz. Beet, F'arly Blood Turnip 
Improved; one packet Cabbage, Early Winnigstadt; 
one packet Cabbage. Premium Flat ‘Dutch; one packet 
Carrot, Early Half Long Scarlet Stump Rooted; 00c 
pint Corn, F.arly Minnesota; one pint Corn, Stowell’s 
Evergreen; one oz. Cucumber, Early Short Green; one 
packet Cucumber, Long Green Improved; one packet 
Lettuce, Ferry’s Prize Head; one oz. Musk Melon. Im¬ 
proved Large Green Nutmeg; one oz. Water Melon, 
Ferry’s Peerless; one packet Water Melon, Phinney’s 
Early; one packet Onion, Yellow Globe Danvers; one 
packet Onion, White Globe; one pint Peas. D. M. 
Ferry & Co.’s Extra Early ; one pint Peas, Premium 
Gem; one pint Peas, Champion of England; one packet 
Radish, Early Long Scarlet Short Top Improved; one 
packet Radish, French Breakfast; one packet Squash, 
Early White Bush Scallop; one oz. Squash, Hubbard; 
one packet Tomato, Livingston’s Favorite; one packet 
Turnip. Early Purple Top Strap Leaved Improved; one 
packet Turnip, Early Yellow Montmagny. 
Collection No. 4, 
Consists of a very choice assortment of twelve Annu. 
al Flowers for small yards or gardens. They will afford 
a regular succession of" bloom, as well as an abundance 
! of cut flowers the whole season. They are selected with 
especial reference to making the finest display of bloom 
at the least expense, and they will succeed with only or¬ 
dinary culture, and in almost any soil. It is composed 
I of one packet each of the following : Alyssum. Sweet; 
Aster, Mixed German Quilled; Balsam, Double Sol- 
ferino; Candytuft, Fine Mixed; OKikscomb, Mixed 
j Tall; Larkspur, Double Dwarf Rocket; Marigold. Me- 
j teor; Mignonette, Sweet; Petunia, I^rge Flowered 
Mixed; Phlox Drummondii Extra Choice Mixed; Pink, 
Hcddewig's Double; Portulaca, Fine Mixed. 
Colle-ction No. 5, 
Consists of six of the easiest grown and most popular 
j climbers, useful alike for veranda and trellis, and tor cov- 
! cring stumps and unsightly objects with a profusion of 
beautiful flowers, namely:—one packet each of Cypress 
Vine, Mixed; Hyacinth Bean. Mixed; Morning Glory, 
Mixed; Smilax; Sweet Peas, Mixed; Tropaeoleum Lob- 
bianum, Mixed. 
Collection No. 6, 
Consists of six of the most popular Foliage Plants,with¬ 
out which no flower garden is complete, namely: one 
packet each of Amaranthus Tricolor (Joseph’s Coat); 
Canna Indica (Indian Shot); Castor Bean, Mixed; Ccn- 
taurea Gymnocarpa; Ice Plant; Perilla. 
Collection No. 7, 
Consists of nine choicest varieties of Pansies. These 
flowers arc such universal favorites that they will com¬ 
mend themselves to all. The varieties are Copper 
Colored; Emperor William; Gold Margined; King of 
the Blacks; Large Stained; Odier; Pure Yellow; Pure 
White; Variegated or Striped. 
Collection No. 8, 
Consists of six of the most useful and beautiful of Ever¬ 
lasting Flowers, or Immortelles, so much sought after 
in the formation of winter bouquets. When dried in 
the shade, they retain their beauty for years. The va¬ 
rieties are: Acroclinium, Mixed; Ammobium Alatum; 
Globe Amaranth. Mixed; Helichrysum Monstrosum, 
Double Mixed; Hclipterum, Mixed; Rhodanthe, Mixed- 
Collection TSO. 9, 
Consists of six of the choicest and most beautiful tender 
Perennials for pot culture in the parlor or green-house, 
and will be highly appreciated by the florist and ama¬ 
teur. The varieties arc: Cineraria, Choicest Mixed; 
Cyclamen Persicum, Choicest Mixed; Gloxinia, Choic¬ 
est Mixed; Heliotrope, Dark Varieties, Mixed; Primula 
Sinensis, Choicest Mixed; Verbena, Extra Choice 
Mixed. 
COLLECTIONS. 
VEGETABLE 
Collection No. I, amounting to $ .60 .sent postpaid for $ .50, 
“ 2, “ 1.20. “ “ 1.00 
“ 3, “ 2.50. delivered at express office for 2.00 
FLOWER SEED COLLECTIONS. 
Collection No. 4, Annuals. amounting to $ .90. .sent postpaid for $ .75 
“ 5, Climbers. ‘ * 5 ° .40 
M 6 , Foliage Plants ‘ .50. “ .40 
“ 7, Pansies . “ x.35.. “ 1.00 
“ 8 , Everlastings... “ » 5 ° • “ .40 
“ 9, Tender Perennials," 1.30 . “ 1,00 
