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Title: Seed annual 1913
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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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Brilliant carmine shale. 10c. Dark Blue. Oz. §1.25 10c. Crimson. Oz. Si 25 10c. Mixed. Oz. S1.25. 10c. ;-k I 1 This very desirable, me-LraybreclK dlum early variety is acompact, upright growing, branchingplant. Flowers borne on long stems, al-most round, exceptionally well formedand very double with regularly incurvedpetals. The color is a delicate lightpink. Height fifteen to twentv inches.Oz.Sl.50 .Pkt. 10c. ■n •,^ Similar to Daybreak but pure r Urity white. One of the best early white asters. An excellent variety for cutting. Oz. Si.50 Pkt. 10c. H/I! J O* 1 A remarkably beauti-MlKaaO rillK ful mid-season asterof very large size and fine form, at firstwhite but changing gradually to lightrose or rose with lavender tint. Thepetals are long, rather flat, some of themsUghtly curved and twisted, and coverwell the centers of the flowers. Plantsabout two feet high, branching and bearvery large flowers on stems twelve tosixteen inches long. Known also asRochester. Oz. §1.50 Pkt. 15c.
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Extra Early HohenjolleRn M. FERRY & CO., DETROIT, MICH. 67 A S X E R—Continued /^ - -;. C-».Y;I T)i*r9i*f This mid-season class of semi-dwarf Comet Asters is fully two weeks earlier in blooming than ^OIIlCl» Jdni-LfMVaTI the older Comet strains and though more compact in growth of plant is very floriferous.Flowers often three inches or more in diameter with centers well covered and petals broad and recurved; very satisfactoryfor cutting. Plant branching but rather upright in habit, about eighteen inches iiigh. White Pkt. 10c. Light Blue Pkt. 10c. Light Rose 10c. Lilac 10c. Mixed. Includes the four above varieties mixed lOc. Virklaf l^in(T Similar in habit of growth to the late branching asters but producing a little earlier very large double V 10161 IVing blossoms of distinct form, many of the petals being slightly quilled and curved. The inner petals are in-curved covering well the center. Color a soft and pleasing shade of violet. A hardy and blight resistant sort about twen

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