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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. 
“FRESH EVERY YEAR” means 
that our packets are put up especial¬ 
ly 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 once every 
year. All unsold papered seeds are 
then taken up and shipped back 
to Detroit and none of our packets 
is ever on sale a second season. 
Therefore you can be just as sure 
of the condition of seeds offered in 
a newly opened “commission” 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 directly behind . 
them the most complete organiza¬ 
tion, the greatest experience and the 
finest facilities ever devoted to the 
production and distribution of gar¬ 
den seeds. 
EXPERIENCE. Our splendid 
organization enables us to special¬ 
ize. In a smaller seed house which 
includes 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 atten¬ 
tion. 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 espe¬ 
cially fitted by nature and training 
for the duties they perform. More¬ 
over we have been supplying garden 
seeds for sixty-three years. Multi¬ 
ply our huge annual volume by the 
time we have been seed merchants 
and you can readily see we have had 
the greatest experience of any gar¬ 
den seed producers now in business. 
In a word, we have every fa¬ 
cility and incentive to meet your 
needs. Buy Ferry’s seeds of “the 
store around the comer” and you 
will become one of our army of 
staunch friends. 
TH£ AL-WAV5 the cheapest, reliable seeds cannot ee 
A/TOftDED AT HALF PRICE 
