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D. M. FERRY & CO’S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
STANDARD SEEDS 
“AT THE STORE AROUND THE CORNER” 
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 customer 
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 sixty years 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. 
THE BEST IS ALWAYS THE CHEAPEST; RELIABLE SEEDS CANNOT BE 
AFFORDED AT HALF PRICE 
“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 onceeveryyear. 
All unsold papered 
seeds are then taken 
up and shipped back 
to Detroit ar.dnone 
of our packet s is ever 
on sale a second sea¬ 
son. Therefore you 
can be just as sure of 
the condition of seeds 
offered in a newly 
opened “commis¬ 
sion” 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 di¬ 
rectly behind them 
the most complete 
organization, the 
greatest experience 
and the finest facili¬ 
ties ever devoted, to 
the productiop/'and 
distribution of gar¬ 
den seeds. 
EXPERIENCE. Our splendid organization enables us to specialize. In a smaller seed house which in¬ 
cludes other lines than 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 suddIv 
mg garden seeds for sixty-four years. Multiply our huge annual volume by the time we have been seed mer¬ 
chants 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. 
