Identifier: seedannual19181918dmfe (find matches)
Title: Seed annual 1918
Year: 1918 (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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ethrough the winter in a mild climate; height of plants about one and one-half feet. Early Brown. Brownish-red, fragrant single flowers; large, thick spikes; early. Tender biennial. Oz. 25c Pkt. 10c. Golden Tom Thumb. A variety of dwarf and compact habit. The blossoms are single and of an attractive golden yellow color. Tender biennial Pkt. 10c. Double Mixed. Deliciously fragrant, perfectly double, and combine many shades of color, the orange, purple and chocolate predominating. Oz. $2.50 Pkt. 10c. (Echinocystis lobnta) This is auseful climber where a rapidand vigorous growth of vine is desired. To cover or toscreen an unsightly building, there is perhaps no annualclimber better adapted for the purpose. The vine hasabundant foliage and is thickly covered with sprays ofsmall white, fragrant flowers, followed by numerous pricklyseed pods. Sow late in fall or very early in spring. Usually theplants are produced from year to year by self sown seed.Hardy annual. Oz. 20c; Lb. $1.50 Pkt. 10c
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Wild Cucumber Wistaria Chinensis Zinnia One of the most beautifuland rapid growing of thehardy perennial climbers. When well established in goodsoil it will often giow fifteen to twenty feet during theseason and frequently blooms both in spring and fall.The flowers are very fragx-ant, single, pale blue, pea-shaped and are borne in long, drooping grape-like clusters,often over a foot in length. Foliage light green, pinnate. The seed should be sown in mellow loam early in thespring, or in greenhouse or hotbed in winter and whenplants are one foot high transplanted into permanentsituations Pkt. 20c. fV 9 0 Sometimes called Youth and Old Jr ^ ^^^ -mtiL m 0^ ^^®- ^^^ ^^^^ known bush-like ^F ■ Tv.Tv ■ fS plants of Zinnias produce a pro-flh^ JL A Ma mM,^^ fusion of large double imbricatedflowers, borne on stifl: stems. Theyare much used for bedding and are suitable for bordersand for cutting. There is much satisfaction in a bed of Zinnias with theirtwisted and recurved petalled flowers

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