SHRUBS, VINES, PLANTS AND BULBS 



and drop them into a convenient pan of ker- 

 osene. Early varieties begin blooming in July, 

 and, by judicious sowing, a succession of 

 flowers can be had until frost. There is no 

 more satisfactory annual and none that 

 better repays 

 cultivation. The 

 new varieties are 

 wonderful in the 

 size and fullness 

 of the heads. 

 The names of 

 the different va- 

 rieties quite de- 

 scribe them. 

 Particularly at- 

 tractive are the 

 Comet, a large, 



white, branch- Aster, Ostrich Plume 



ing aster, and the Daybreak, an exquisite 

 shell-pink American aster. Purity, another 

 American aster, is snow-white. 



Balsam, Double Camellia-flowered 

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