D. M. FERRY & CO., WINDSOR, ONT. 
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Snapdragon 
(LargeFlowering) This bonier ami bedding: plant of long blooming season 
;he best perennials suitable for dowering as an annual. The long showy 
{Antirrhinum) 
is now one of the best perennials -----c. — —^ - . _ . - , , 
spikes of curiously shaped tubular dowers with spreading lobes and finely marked 
tnroats are fragrant as well as brilliantly colored. They are very desirable for cutting as 
the spikes of bloom are borne well above the dark glossy leaves and keep fresh for a long time. 
For blooms the drst season outdoors, sow seed very early under glass and transplant to open border as soon as the 
ground is warm and dry, in rich loamy soil in a sunny situation, setting one foot apart each way and giving them plenty or water: 
or sow seed in August or September and cover plants with a mulch on approach of cold weather. 1 hese fall-sown plants may 
be transplanted into pots and dowered in the house, and in this case give them the same temperature and treatment as gerani¬ 
ums and carnations. Tender perennial, often treated as annual or biennial; one and one-half to two feet high. 
Majus album. Pure white, lignt yellow throat. ]JJc. 
Majus brilliant. Crimson and yellow, throat white... 4t J5J C - 
Majus Delila. Reddish-violet, white throat. 4 , JJJ C * 
Fine Mixed. An extra dne mixture including all the best colors. Oz. 50c. lb. $1.50. 10c. 
Stock 
(Mathiola ) Sometimes called Gilliflower. Considered almost indispensable where a fine display of dowers 
is wanted and particularly valued for edgings, bedding and pot culture. The improved varieties we offer 
of this favorite garden plant produce dense spikes of very fragrant and beautiful rosette-like double 
dowers in a wide range of attractive colors. They are suitable for cutting, being produced on stems ot 
good length in pleasing contrast with the dark green foliage of the bushy plants. Each of the four types 
is of long dowering period and if the earlier ones are started indoors, a profusion of fragrant and pleasing dowers is afforded 
for the entire season. . . 
Sow outdoors early in spring, using well fertilized, carefully pulverized soil and cover seed with one-fourth inch or fine soil 
firmly pressed down. Make the rows fifteen inches apart; thin to six inches apart. For earlier blooming start indoors and trans¬ 
plant. Height of plants, one to one and one-half feet. 
Early Flowering Brompton . 
A decidedly superior, large-dowering annual strain with the splendid foliage and bloom of the older type but dowering with 
the Ten Weeks and decidedly superior in length of stem and size of dower spike. This group is also called Beauty Stocks, 
Giants of Nice, “Cut and Come Again” and Victoria Stocks. 
Belle of Naples. Old rose or light purplish rose. . 
Camaldoli. Dark violet or light purplish red..'. • 
Snow White ( Victoria) . 
Vesuvius. Blood-red or deep purplish red . ... 
Early Flowering Brompton Mixed. Includes shades of white, old rose, blood-red, purple and violet. Oz. $3.00. 
Pkt. 15c. 
44 15c. 
44 10c. 
44 15c. 
44 10c. 
Sunflower 
Double Ten Weeks (Large Flowering) 
This favorite half-hardy summer blooming annual has deliciously fragrant dowers and is very desirable for cutting. 
Double Ten Weeks, Mixed ( Levkojen ) Shades of white, red, purple, lavender and maroon. Oz. $1.00.Pkt. 10c. 
Double Ten Weeks, Pure White. \ ery useful Intermediate or Autumnal Stocks 
fordoral work & bouquets. ^ .Pkt. 10c. Sown at the same time as the Ten Weeks the Inter¬ 
mediate sorts will succeed them in bloom, thus affording 
dowers continuously until late in the fall. The dowers 
are larger and are produced on longer, bolder spikes. 
For indoor blooming, if sown in pots late in summer the 
plants will bloom the following spring. 
Intermediate White.Pkt. 15c. 
Scarlet. 44 15c. 
Winter or Biennial Brompton Stocks 
These require a longer time than the Intermediate to 
grow and cannot endure our winters unless protected. 
Brompton Mixed. This mixture of Winter or Biennial 
Brompton Stocks forms bushy plants dowering in the 
fall outdoors if started in hotbed early in spring and 
transplanted, or blooming well in winter from seed 
sown outdoors in summer if plants are taken up in 
the fall and given cool airy quarters indoors: half 
hardy biennial. Oz. $4.00.Pkt. 10c. 
STRAW FLOWER —(See Helichrysum and Rhodanthe) 
( IJelianthus ) These 
stately, old-fashioned 
flowers with the newer 
improved varieties are 
coming into special favor as a background for lawns and 
in front of high fences. Valuable also as a screen to 
hide unsightly places and sometimes used to mitigate the 
evil of adjacent swamp holes. Their very tall dense 
growth and bright yellow disc-like flowers of very large 
size and long blooming period make them one of the most 
deserving and useful of hardy annuals. 
Sunflowers grow readily in almost any soil but do 
best on light, rich limestone or alluvial land well sup¬ 
plied with moisture and not shaded by trees or build¬ 
ings. Sow the seed outdoors in spring after danger of 
frost is over, preferably in well pulverized soil either 
broadcast or in rows two to three feet apart and cover 
about one-half inch deep. When the young plants are 
about four inches high, thin one-half to two feet apart 
to secure the best development. 
Double Chrysanthemum Flowered. The most attrac¬ 
tive of the very double sunflowers. Plant tall, growing 
seven feet high and blooming profusely all summer. 
Flowers very large, often eight, to ten inches across, 
very double, with long fringed petals and resemble 
chrysanthemums. The color is a splendid, rich, golden- 
yellow, free from any black center. Oz. 80c.. Pkt. 10c. 
Globosus Fistulosus {Globe, or Dahlia Sunflower) This 
desirable variety produces very large, exceedingly 
double flowers, often six to eight inches in diameter 
and of bright yellow color. The plants are usually 
about five feet high. Oz. 20c.Pkt. 10c. 
Stella. The plant of this fine Miniature (cucumerifolins) 
variety is spreading with many branches and attains 
a height of about three feet. The flowers are about 
three inches in diameter and are of an unusually pure 
golden yellow with black discs or centers, and are 
borne on long stems well above the foliage. Early 
blooming and produced in abundance throughout a 
long season. Oz. 80c.Pkt. 10c. 
Sunflower, Stella SWEET ROCKET — (See Rocket) 
