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D. M. FERRY & CO’S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
v Petunia. 
Petunias are unsurpassed for massing in beds. Their richness of 
color, duration of bloom, and easy culture, will always render them 
popular. They do well sown in open border in spring, or earlier in 
cold frame or hot bed, and transplanted eighteen inches apart. 
Tender perennial, but bloom profusely the first season. One and a-half 
feet high. % 
Nyctagi n iflora, pure white. 5 
Hybrida, Countess of Ellesmere, deep rose, white throat.... 10 
“ Finest striped and blotched, saved from striped 
and blotched varieties only .10 
Hyhrida fniinitabilis nana compacta multiflora (inimit¬ 
able dwarf), compact, eight inches in height, covered with 
regularly striped flowers.15 
Ilybrida, fine mixed. 5 
LARGE FLOWERING SECTION. 
Ilybrida granditlora marginata, green edged varieties..20 
Hybrida, 1 * 1*11100 of Wurttemberg, rose . 20 
Princess of Wurttemberg, purple. 20 
grand!flora superhissima, splendid large throat...25 
“ large flowering, brilliant rose. A new variety 
with large flowers of the brightest shade of rose we have ever 
seen in a single petunia. One of the most desirable in the list .25 
targe flowered, mixed, largest flowers.10 
Ilybrida grandiftora, choicest mixed. 15 
FRiNGED SECTION. 
Fringed varieties, mixed, very desirable.20 
DOUBLE FLOWERING SECTION. 
Hybrida, double large flowering fringed, rose. New and 
of the highest merit; bears large, exceedingly double flowers 
of the most brilliant rose color. Give this a trial.50 
Double mixed. Sure to produce a good percentage of double 
flowering plants.20 
Hybrida grandiftora robusta 11. pi., dwarf, of robust growth, 
forming a compact, upright, branched bush, about ten inches 
in height and fourteen inches in width, with double flowers in 
all shades of colors existing in petunias.25 
Extra double fringed, many colors, beautifully fringed, a 
good percentage double.50 
PHACELIA CONGESTA.—A curious and interesting 
hardy annual. It makes a pretty border plant and is 
good for bee food; blue. 5 
1*H I.OX.—Very hardy annuals, thriving in almost any 
situation, and unequaled in the magnificent display of 
ever, in deep, rich, rather moist ground, 
saved from splendid sorts. 
Mixed, seeds 
their many and brilliantly colored flowers. Seed sown 
in open ground in fall or early spring will begin flower¬ 
ing July first and remain literally covered with bloom 
until after severe frosts late in autumn. For masses of 
separate colors or for cutting for bouquets, they are un¬ 
surpassed. One foot high. 
Drummomlii grandiflora alba, pure white; our own 
growth. Comes absolutely true from seed.10 
Drum, grandifl. scarlet, black center.10 
“ “ rosea, deep rose .10 
“ “ Black Warrior, fine. 10 
“ “ Kermesinn alba oculata(superba), 
white, purple eye—.10 
Drum, grandifl. splendeus, crimson, pure white eye; 
one of the finest of this strain.10 
Drum, grandifl., Isabellina. New, has large, warm 
yellow flowers, which is a novel color in the Phlox fam¬ 
ily. Very desirable.-.10 
Drum, grandifl.. Rosy Chamois. 
Beautiful shade of rose. 10 
Drum, grandifl. stellata 
dens, rich crimson with star 
white eye. 
Drum. Graf Gero, of fine, com¬ 
pact growth, very effective in 
D r u m. g r a 11 diflora, extra, 
choicest mixed, composed of the 
best of the large flowered varieties. .10 
Drum., flue mixed, many fine vari¬ 
eties. 5 
Perennial. The varieties of the per¬ 
ennial phlox are among the choicest 
of our flowers for bedding and bor¬ 
der plants. They are hardy and 
need no protection; will flourish in Phlox Drummondh. 
any soil, succeeding better, how- Stellata Splenoens. 
PINK—(Dianthus).—The dianthus family is one of the 
most useful and beautiful, including the Carnation and 
Picotee, Sweet William, Florist's, Chinese and Japan 
Pinks, in all their varieties. Hardy and half hardy 
biennials and perennials. 
Chinensis fl. pi. (Double China Pink), a biennial of 
dwarf habit; flowers the first year, but the bloom is 
stronger the second. 5 
Chinensis Heddewigii 11. pi. (Heddewig’s Pink), 
flowers very large and double, having a diameter of 
Phlox Drummonoii Kermesina, 
