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D. M. FERRY & CO’S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
Vinca 
( Periwinkle) These very attractive bushy plants with glossy green foliage produce in abundance handsome 
round or salver shaped single flowers, suitable either for culture in pots or boxes or for summer bedding 
and borders. If sown early under glass and transplanted in a warm, sheltered situation will bloom in summer 
and autumn and may be potted for the house before frost. The plants require no trimming, are in con¬ 
tinuous bloom from setting out until frost ana are entirely free from the attacks of insects. These desirable features account 
for the very general use of Vincas in parks and private grounds for summer bedding and borders. Tender perennials, bloom¬ 
ing the first season, about fifteen inches high. 
Pure White. Beautiful pure white. Oz. 75c.Pkt. 5c. I Rosea Alba. White with crimson eye. Oz. 75c.Pkt. 5c. 
Rosea. Rose with crimson eye; flowers often two inches in diameter. A very desirable window plant. Oz. 75c. “ 5c. 
Mixed. The above named varieties mixed. Oz. 75c. . 41 5c. 
VIOLA TRICOLOR —(See Pansy) 
; o ■ (Cheiranthus maritimus) The plants are covered with a dense mass of beautiful blossoms and are 
V lrginicin OlOCK very useful for border or edging. A continual succession of blossoms maybe kept uo the whole 
season by sowing at intervals through spring and summer. Hardy annual; about nine inches high. 
Red and white, mixed.Pkt. 5c. 
Wallflower 
(Cheiranthus cheiri ) An old 
favorite European garden flow’ 
er. The large, massive spikes of 
the Wallflower wdien properly grown are very conspicuous in 
beds and borders ana are very useful in making bouquets. 
Sow seed early in hotbeds and while plants are small prick 
them out into pots and sink in the earth. On approach of cold 
weather remove the pots to the house and the plants will 
bloom all winter. Tender perennial that will live through the 
winter in a mild climate; height about one and one-half feet. 
Early Brown. Brownish red, fragrant flowers; large, thick 
spikes; early. Tender biennial. Oz. 25c.Pkt. 5c. 
Golden Tom Thumb. Free flowering, of dwarf and compact 
habit; blossoms of an attractive golden yellow’ color. Tender 
biennial.Pkt. 5c. 
Mixed Double. Deliciously fragrant, perfectly double, and 
combine many shades of color, the orange, purple and choco¬ 
late predominating. Oz. $2.50.Pkt. 10c. 
(Echinocystis lobata) This is a use- 
Wlid Cucumber * U 1 climber where a rapid and vig¬ 
orous growth of vine is desired. To cover or to screen an un¬ 
sightly building, there is perhaps no annual climber better 
adapted for the purpose. The vine has abundant foliage, is 
thickly covered with white, fragrant flowers, followed by 
numerous prickly seed pods. Usually the plants are pro¬ 
duced from year to year by self sown seed. Hardy annual. 
Oz. 20c; Lb. $1.50.Pkt. 5c. 
\I/' /"'’I. One of the most beautiful and 
W istaria Lhmensis rapid growing of the hardy 
perennial climbers. When well established in good soil it 
will often grow fifteen to twenty feet during the season and 
frequently blooms both in spring and fall. The flowers are 
pale blue, pea-shaped and are borne in long, drooping clusters, 
often over a foot in length. The seed should be sown in 
mellow loam early in the spring, or in greenhouse or hotbed 
in winter and when plants are one foot nigh transplanted into 
permanent situations.Pkt. 20c. 
Zinnia 
Well know’n bush-like plants producing a profusion of large double imbricated flowers borne on stiff 
[• bedding. There is much satisfaction in a bed of Zinnias, for wl 
lien nearly every 
ew flowers are more easily grown 
in more abundantly throughout tlie season, and the wide range of color is not less remarkable 
leir unusual depth and richness. Sow the seed early in spring, in open ground in good, rich 
•urth inch of fine soil firmly pressed down. When the young plants are one to two inches high 
stems; much used for bedding. 
other flower has been killed by frost this plant is still in full bloom, 
than the 
soil, covering with about one-fou_ „ , . . ... 
thin to six inches apart. Start under glass for earlier blooming. Half hardy annual; about eighteen Inches high, 
Double yellow. Oz 85c.Pkt. 5c. Double white. Oz. 35c 
scarlet. Oz. 85c.j. (( 5c. ** black purple. Oz. 35c. 
deep red. Oz. 35c. 5c. «, , , ^ o- 
** magenta. Oz. 35c. “5c. dark crimson. Oz. 8oc. 
“ orange. Oz. 85c. “ 5c. “ striped or zebra, mixed. Oz. 00c. ... 
Double choice mixed, including the above colors, very fine. Oz. 85c; Lb. $3.50 . 
Lilliput, double mixed. This strain grows about one foot high and bears a profusion of comparatively small, very 
double, globular flowers about one inch in diameter, very brilliant in color. 
Pompon, double mixed. The globular flowers are fully as varied and brilliant in color as the ordinary Zinnia and 
about half its size. Oz. 40c. 
Haageana, double. Dw arf variety with double flowers of a deep orange color, about one and one-quarter inches in diam¬ 
eter; fine for cut flowers; height one foot. 
Mexicana Hybrida, variegated. A variety of Zinnia distinctive in its well-formed single flowers of deep maroon and 
golden yellow, strikingly contrasted. The flowers are very similar to the popular French Legion of Honor Marigold, 
but come into bloom earlier and are more easily grown. Hardy annual; one foot high. 
Pkt. 5c. 
5c. 
5c. 
“ 5c. 
“ 5c. 
10c. 
’ 5c. 
10c. 
15c. 
Vinca 
