D. M. FERRY & CO., DETROIT, MICH. 
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Pyrethrum 
Rhodanthe 
Very ornamental, both 
foliage and flowers. 
Well adapted for bed¬ 
ding and borders. Sow outdoors in spring as soon 
as ground can be worked, or for best results start 
the seed indoors and transplant after danger 
from frost is past. (See also Matricaria) 
Parthenifolium Aureum. ( Golden Feather) Beautiful 
gold leaved bedding plant. Flowers white. Half 
hardy perennial; heignt one foot. Oz. 50c. Pkt. 5c. 
Parthenifolium Aureum Selaginoides. Finely cut, 
fern-like leaves of bright golden yellow color. 
Extra fine for bedding. Half hardy perennial; 
twelve to fifteen inches high.~... .Pkt. 10c. 
Roseum. Hay flowers two to three inches in diame¬ 
ter, carmine-rose with golden yellow center. Fol¬ 
iage finely cut. Hardy perennial; two to two and 
one-half feet high. Pkt. 10c. 
One of the most beautiful ever¬ 
lastings. Flowers bell-shaped, 
rose with golden center and white with yellow 
disc, gracefully poised on slender stems. Blooms 
should be gathered before fully expanded and 
dried in the shade. Tender annual; one and one- 
half to two feet high. Mixed. Pkt. 5c. 
RICINUS —{See Castor Bean ) 
Rnrltpf (Hesperis matronalis) Produces clus- 
ters of flowers very fragrant during 
the evening and very useful for cutting. Seed 
germinates readily in open ground if sown after 
danger from frost is past. Hardy perennial. 
Sweet, Purple. Plants two and one-half to three 
feet high.Pkt. 5c. 
Sweet, White. About two feet high. “ 5c. 
| Multiflora Dwarf Perpetual, Mixed. 
KOS0 Plants under ordinary care will com- 
* mence to flower when six inches high 
and about two months old, and will continue to 
grow and bloom until they form compact bushes 
about sixteen inches high, well covered with 
flowers. Open the berries and separate the seeds, 
sowing in pots of rich sandy soil and keep in a 
temperature of about seventy degrees and moder¬ 
ately moist. When plants are about one inch high 
transplant and give plenty light and air. Tender 
perennial; blooming the first year.... _Pkt. 15c. 
Very showy bedding or 
[ border plants with richly 
_ _ ’ colored, funnel-shaped 
flowers which are purple, scarlet, crimson, yellow, 
buff, blue or almost black, beautifully marbled and pencilled. 
For early blooming seed may be started indoors as early as 
the middle of March and the young plants set out in the 
garden one foot apart, or seed mav be sown outdoors after o • 1 
settled warm weather. Useful for cutting. Blooms from OCIllZcintnilS 
August to October. Half hardy annual; about two feet high. 
Fine Mixed. Hybrids. One of our most easily grown annuals 
alfording long stemmed flowers, desirable for cutting, and in 
many beautiful shades and markings Oz. 50c. Pkt. 5c. 
Large Flowering Mixed. This hybrid mixture is a notable im 
provement on the ordinary variety in that the plants are more 
compact in growth and the flowers are much larger in size 
and more richly colored and veined. Pkt. 10c. 
Salpiglossis’ 
Salpiglossis 
SCABIOSA— (See Mourning Bride) 
SCARLET FLAX —(See Linum) 
Rctusus trimaculatus. The large flower 
spikes are decidedly superior in size of 
bloom and brilliancy of coloring. Petals bright yellow with 
margins and tube of purple-rose, shading from lighter to 
darker shades. The seed may be sown outdoors after danger 
of frost is past, where the plants are to remain; or start inside 
and transplant when weather is suitable. Hardy annual; about 
twenty inches high. Also known as Butterfly Flower or Poor 
Man s Orchid.pkt. 15c. 
SENSITIVE PLANT —{See Mimosa Pudica) 
Salvia 
(Flowering Sage) Among the most brilliantly 
colored of garden flowers and extremely 
useful for bedding; also valuable for pot 
culture. Blooms are borne in long spikes 
well above the foliage and are of fiery red, crimson or blue, 
continuing in flower a long time. Start early in heat and 
transplant into light soil one to two feet apart; or seed can 
be sown outdoors after danger from frost is past. Tender 
perennial, but blooms the first season; height one and one- 
naif to three feet. 
Splendens. Sold also as “Splendens Bonfire.” Large, brilliant 
scarlet flowers are in these plants alTorded a rich, dark green 
background of dense foliage. This variety is most generally 
used in parks and on extensive lawns, as in growth it is 
more vigorous than the more dwarf varieties. One of the 
most striking and effective bedding plants in cultivation. 
(See colored plate on back cover) Oz. $2.00.Pkt. 10c. 
Patens. One of the finest blue flowers known; not as well suited 
for bedding as the other varieties of salvia, but very attrac¬ 
tive in the mixed border. Height of plant, about one and one- 
half to two feet.Pkt. 15c. 
Fireball. Many strains of Salvia Splendens have been offered 
under different names with the claim that they are larger 
flowered or more floriferous than the old type. We have 
found none of them more distinctly valuable than this strain 
in which the plant is more uniformly dwarf, and comes into 
bloom earlier than most sorts and remains covered with 
brilliant red flow'er spikes a remarkably long time. About 
two feet high.Pkt. 10c. 
C _ •! No twining plant in cultivation surpasses this 
JlTTlI 1 7\ V in graceful beauty of foliage. Indispensable 
to ji or | s ts as its hard texture enables it to be 
kept without wilting several days after being cut. The seed 
germinates very slowly. The process may be hastened some¬ 
what by soaking the seed in hot water for ten hours before 
planting, but even then it is often six or eight weeks before 
the plants make their appearance. Tender perennial climber, 
ten teet high. Oz. 50c.Pkt. 5c. 
Ol ( Antirrhinum ) This is 
an old bordei plant with 
rtV fill dark, glossy leaves and 
Jl long spikes of curiously 
shaped, brilliantly colored flowers with finely marked throats. 
Snapdragons have been much improved of late years by 
careful selection, and will blossom the first season from seed 
sown in spring, especially if under frames and transplanted. 
If early bloom is desired, sow the seed in August or Sep¬ 
tember and cover the plants with a mulch on the approach of 
cold weather. These may be transplanted into pots and 
flowered in the house. Give them the same temperature 
and treatment as geraniums and carnations. Tender peren¬ 
nial; one and one-half to two feet high. 
Majus album. Pure white, light yellow throat.Pkt. 5c. 
Majus brilliant. Crimson and yellow, throat white. ” 5 C . 
Majus Delila. Reddish-violet, white throat. ” 5 C . 
Fine Mixed. Includes all of the best colors. Oz. 35c... “ 5c. 
STIPA PENNATA —(See Feather Grass ) 
