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D. M. FERRY & CO’S 
SEED ANNUAL 
— 1912 — 
FOREWORD 
W E take pleasure in presenting to our friends the Annual of our fifty-seventh year in the seed business. 
It has been our wish in compiling it not only to make it attractive from a literary and artistic stand¬ 
point but truthfully to set forth in it what, from our experience as seedsmen, we believe would be of 
value to those who are and to the many who might be their own gardeners. From it they may make their 
choice of the varieties they wish to plant and rest assured after they have made this choice that they are get¬ 
ting the best there is to be had, the result of fifty-six years’ work and experience. 
Being one’s own gardener, either from choice or from necessity, brings a good deal of satisfaction and en¬ 
joyment, the satisfaction of being an aid to nature in the production of vegetables that are good to eat, the 
enjoyment of flowers that are good to see. 
Through our experience gained from long years in the business, our unsurpassed facilities, the care and 
pains we take in growing and selecting, we are able to put up for sale the highest grade vegetable and flower 
seeds on the market. 
OUR TERMS ARE STRICTLY CASH WITH THE ORDER. 
We do not send C. O. D.,as the cost of collecting return charges 
is quite an unnecessary item of expense and the prices being 
given, we can conceive of no necessity to warrant goods being 
so sent. 
HOW TO SEND MONEY. Remittances may be made at 
our risk by any of the following methods, viz.: Postal Money 
Order, Draft on New York or ChiCAGO, or Express Company’s 
Money Order. 
The rates charged for Postal Money Orders and Express 
Money Orders are now so low that these are the best ways to 
remit. We will bear the expense of sending money in either 
of these ways. Deduct the cost of the order from amount 
sent. Express Money Orders can be obtained at all offices 
of the principal Express Companies. They are cheap and 
ABSOLUTELY SAFE. 
When Money Orders cannot be obtained, letters containing 
money should always be registered. Money in ordinary letters 
is unsafe. If currency is sent by express, the charges should 
be prepaid, and if local checks are used they must be certified. 
FREE OF POSTAGE OR EXPRESS CHARGES. Packets, 
Ounces, Two Ounces, Quarter Pounds or Pounds, ordered at 
list prices, will be sent free by mail or express. 
Customers ordering enough for a freight shipment, 100 pounds 
or more, or desiring to pay their own express charges, may de¬ 
duct 10 cents per pound from prices of this catalogue on all seeds 
quoted by the pound or less. 
PINTS AND QUARTS. Pints, Quarts and Four Quarts, 
ordered at list prices, fifteen cents per quart, ten cents per 
pint, must be added for postage or express charges and they 
will then be sent free. 
ONE-FOURTH BUSHEL, BUSHEL AND HUNDRED 
POUND LOTS. Where One-Fourth Bushel, Bushel or 
Hundred Pound lots are ordered, we deliver free at depot or 
express office in Detroit, Mich., the freight or express charges 
to be paid by the party ordering. 
Where perishable or other goods are ordered to be sent 
by freight or express to such great distances that the cost of 
transportation will nearly or quite equal the value of the goods, 
we must decline to ship unless purchasers remit us, in addition 
to the price of goods, sufficient funds to prepay transportation 
charges. When this requirement is not complied with, we 
reserve the right of declining the order and returning money to 
the person ordering. 
SEEDS BY MEASURE. One-fourth bushel and over sold 
at bushel rates; four quarts and over up to one-quarter 
bushel sold at four-quart rates; less than four quarts sold at 
quart or pint rates. 
SEEDS BY WEIGHT. We supply half pound and over at 
pound rates; less than half pound lots are charged at ounce, 
two-ounce or quarter-pound rates; 25 lbs. and over at 100 lb. 
RATES WHEN QUOTED. 
BAGS. To every order for one-quarter bushel and upwards, 
to the amount of two bushels, 25 cents must be added for a new 
bag in which to ship. 
SEEDS IN PACKETS. We offer the following inducements 
to those wishing to purchase seeds in packets: Select packets to 
the value of $1.15 and send us SI.00; for $2.35 send $2.00: for 
$3.00 send $3.00; for $4.85 send $4.00: for $0.15 send $5.00; for 
$12.50 send $10.00; for $20.00 send $20.00. The seeds will be sent 
by mail, postpaid, but these low rates apply to seeds in packets 
only and at catalogue prices and not to seeds by weight 
or measure. 
NAME AND ADDRESS SHOULD ALWAYS BE GIVEN. 
We frequently receive letters containing money and orders, 
which we cannot fill because the sender has failed to sign his 
name or the P. O. address is omitted and the post mark being 
blurred, we are unable to fill the order, no matter how much we 
desire to do so. Use our Order Sheet and Envelope whenever 
you can, filling out the blank and signing your name and you 
will have no cause to censure us. 
GUARANTEE. Complaints made that seeds are not good, 
should quite as often be attributed to other causes as to the 
quality of the seeds. There are hundreds of contingencies con¬ 
tinually arising to prevent the best seeds always giving satis¬ 
faction, such as sowing too deep, too shallow, in too wet or too 
dry soil: insects of all descriptions destroying the plants as soon 
as or before they appear: wet weather, cold weather, frosts, 
chemical changes in the seeds induced by temperature, etc. For 
the above reasons it is impracticable to guarantee seeds under 
all circumstances. 
We give no warranty, express or implied, as to description, 
purity, productiveness, or any other matter of any seeds we 
send out, and we will not be in any way responsible for the crop. 
If the purchaser does not accept the goods on these terms they 
are at once to be returned. 
D. M. Ferry & Co. 
Detroit, Mich., January 1,1912. 
