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Title: Seed annual 1903
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: D.M. Ferry & Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seed industry and trade Michigan Detroit Flowers Seeds Vegetables Seeds Nursery stock Gardening Equipment and supplies
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : D.M. Ferry & Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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ixed A most distinct and valuable addition to our list offlowers, especially so because of the ease with whichfine blooming^ plants can be raised from seed. Plants have been made to bloom within thirty days from the planting of the seed, and even under ordinary care they will commence to flower when six inches high and two mouths old, and will continue to grow and bloom until they form compact bushes about sixteen inches high, covered with flowers. The different plants will give flov,-- ers of varying shades of color. Tender perennial, blooming the first year., Pkt. 15cts ROSE CAMPION—(5ee Agrostemma Coronarid).ROSE OF HEMEN—(See Agrostemma Cceli-rosd). S^lpi^lossis Very showy bedding or border plants with richlycolored, erect, funnel-shaped flowers, which are purple,scarlet, crimson, yellow, buff, blue and almost black, beau-tifully marbled and penciled. Bloom from August to Octo-ber. Half hardy annual; one and a half to two feet high.Fine mixed, hybrid varieties Pkt. Sets Salvia
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(Flowering Sage),Among the mostbrilhantly coloredof garden flowersalso valuable forpot culture.Blooms are bornein long spikeswell above thefoliage and areof fiery red, crim-son or blue color,continuing inbloom for a longtime. Start inheat and transplant into light soi:one to two feet apart. Tender per-ennials, but bloom the first season;height two to three feet. Splendens, brilliant scarlet pirt Oolden Leaved. This is a variety of Salvia Splendens whichcomes true from seed, and has rich yellow leaves, contrast-ing beautifully with the brilliant scarlet flowers. Patens, one of the finest blue flowers known SsvnVffsvlia. procumbens, 11. pi. Veiy pretty, dwarf, trail- tJOAl VAiaAAO ,Qg plants: excellent foi- rock work, borders oredging of beds. It is so completely covered with flowers as to nearlyhide the foliage. Double flowers of a brilliant golden yellow, resemb-ling a miniature double zinnia. Hardy annual; six inches high. Pkt.Sets SCABIOSA—(See Mourning Bride:>. SCARLET FLAX—

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