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NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES, D. M. FERRY & CO., DETROIT, MICH. 
STANDARD SEEDS 
ACCESSIBILITY. Although we fill many thousands of mail orders every season our chief means of 
distributing Ferry’s seeds is through the hands of first class local dealers throughout the United States and 
Canada. There is scarcely a responsible retail merchant anywhere that cannot supply your needs fully and 
immediately with the minimum amount of trouble and the maximum amount of pleasure and profit in the 
results. Market gardeners and others planting large areas have come to depend confidently upon our seeds 
sold in bulk. They know that purity of type results in large crops of the finest fruits and vegetables and that 
it pays to plant only the best. Our market gardener trade increases every year and we seldom lose a cus¬ 
tomer. The professionals who make their living by gardening — in other words the experts—know and use 
Ferry’s seeds. It is no wonder then that there is a steady increase in the number of those who buy Ferry’s 
packet seeds for smaller gardens. 
COMMISSION PACKETS. There must, of course, be a good reason for this general confidence in our 
packet seeds. No product can maintain a prominent place in public esteem for half a century unless it 
possesses genuine intrinsic merit. Ferry’s seeds have become a household necessity because they were the 
best obtainable. It has been to our financial advantage to supply satisfactory' goods because having long 
ago reached the territorial limits of that portion of the continent lying north of the Rio Grande, we must sell 
to the same people year after year. We cannot afford to lose our well earned position in public esteem. 
When you buy a packet of Ferry’s you can be sure that we know as far as it is possible to foresee that the 
seeds will be of satisfactory vitality and will produce good results. 
“FRESH EVERY YEAR” means that our packets are put up especially for the season in which they are 
sold. We do not send out packets a second time. Our traveling salesmen visit the trade at least once every 
year. All unsold papered seeds are then taken up and shipped back to Detroit and none of -our packets is 
ever on sale a second season. Therefore you can be just as sure of the condition of seeds offered in a newly 
opened “commission” box as of those received directly from us by mail. The purchaser receives in a sealed 
envelope fresh seeds that bear the imprint of the largest garden seed house in the world, seeds that have 
directly behind them the most complete organization, the greatest experience and the finest facilities ever de¬ 
voted to the production and distribution of garden seeds. 
EXPERIENCE. Our splendid organization enables us to specialize. In a smaller seed house which in¬ 
cludes other lines thau garden seeds one may be familiar with more kinds of work but he cannot know as 
much about any one thing as if he gave that thing his whole attention. In a large organization a man tends 
to find his proper work and having found it to become its master. Hence at every point our business is 
directed by men especially fitted by nature and training for the duties they perform. Moreover we have been 
supplying garden seeds for fifty-six years. Multiply our huge annual volume by the time we have been seed 
merchants and you can readily see we have had the greatest experience of any garden seed producers now in 
business. 
In a word we have every facility and incentive to meet your needs. Buy Ferry’s seeds of “the store 
around the corner” and you will become one of our army of staunch friends. 
Admiral Togo—An Orange Fleshed Rocky Ford 
This is a small, oval orange fleshed variety, similar in size and shape to the green fleshed Netted Gem or 
Rocky Ford, and of most excellent quality. It stands shipment as well as any of the green fleshed sorts and 
wherever tried has been found distinctly superior in quality to any of that class. Our stock is carefully bred 
in size and shape, is densely netted, with very thick flfesh, ripening clear to the skin. We believe the seed 
we offer will meet the demands of the most discriminating buyers. We consider it the best small shipping 
melon yet introduced. (See colored plate opposite and further description^ page jp) Pkt. 5c; Oz. 20c; 2 Oz. 35c; 
Vi Lb. 60c; Lb. $1.75 
Tom Watson Water Melon 
There has been an increasing demand of late for a better quality of shipping melon. This demand seems 
to be met to an exceptional degree by Tom Watson, a comparatively new variety which has become very popular 
in some sections. The fruits are large and long, similar in shape, color and splendid quality to Monte Cristo, 
but averaging larger in size and with a tougher rind, making the variety especially adapted for shipping. The 
vines are vigorous and productive. It bids fair to become one of the most popular of all shipping melons. 
(See colored plate opposite and further description , page 40) Pkt. 5c; Oz. 10c; 2 Oz. 20 c; y 4 Lb. 30c; Lb. $ 1.00 
Onion Seed 
No vegetable is harder to keep true than the Onion. Not only are there the ordinary dangers from cross¬ 
ing but if all conditions are not ideal scallions or plants without true bulbs are very likely to be formed. 
Moreover, good color and .shape are never attained without many seasons of the most painstaking selection; 
otherwise the shade in the case of reds and yellows is weak and, pale, making the Onions much less attractive 
in the market. In uniformity and excellence of color and shape and in evenness of maturing there are few 
Onions in the world equal to those grown from our seed. There is none better. (See pages 42 , 43 and 44) 
Asters 
These well known and universally admired flowers are not only among the most profitable annuals for the 
florist but are also extremely satisfactory for the home garden. The varieties we offer on pages 66 and 67 
have all been thoroughly tried out and we believe our list includes the most reliable of each class, beginning 
with the P'xtra Early Hohenzollerns and ranging through the Victorias, Semi-Dwarf Comets, Giant Comets 
and Truffaut’s Perfection Peony Flowered to the late branching Semple’s varieties. Recent very valuable 
additions to our list are Crego Giant White, Grego Giant Pink, Mikado Pink (Rochester) and Peerless Pink. 
We offer choice seed that has been grown for us from the best types by the most skillful cultivators in 
America and Europe. 
