Cheodosia B. Shepherd Company 
VENTURA-BY-THE-SEA, CALIFORNIA 
Novelties and Specialties in Flower Seeds 
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Two New Giant Comet Asters. 
A most beatiful type of the large flowered Aster that attainsa height 
of twelve to fifteen inches. It is early blooming, and entirely new in the 
form of the blossoms which often measure four to five inches across. 
They have long wavy, twisted petals, like half balls and resemble large 
flowered Japanese Chrysanthmums. 
The Bride. Color is exquisite, the most delicate blush with a tinge 
of maatve: 
Pure White, a most wonderful snow white. 10c each per pkt. 
New American Branching Aster. 
A beautiful late blooming type of Comet Aster of very vigorous 
growth, giving very long stemmed branches crowned with soft, waved, 
fluffy blossoms that are remarkably fine for cutting. It grows fifteen to 
eighteen inches high. Pure white, rose, crimson, blackish blue and 
purple. 10c per pkt.; 3 pkts. 25c. 
Agave Filamentosa. 
This fine Agave does not bloom till it is many years old, 
anda chenve ike the) Century Plant) dies. It resembles a huge 
carved rosette prettily marked with white, with filaments at the 
edges of the leaves. Seeds are seldom offered and the plants give very few 
offsets, often none whatever, which makes them scarce and rare. 
10c per pkt. 
Arctotus Grandis. 
A very pretty Marguerite-like annual from South Africa, with 
handsome silvery foliage and long stemmed daisy-like flowers, with a soft 
blue center, ray petals, white on the inside and blue outside. The flowers 
are about two inches across. 5c per pkt. 
Mrs. Shepherd’s New Chrysanthemum Flowered Cosmos, 
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The most charming variety of Cosmos yet developed. It has fluffy, 
facinating, fairy-like flowers, from 2% to2™% inches across, semi-double, 
with irregular lacinated petals of the purest snowy whiteness, that resem- 
ble Chrysanthemums in their pretty form. They are borne on slender 
stems in great profusion. ‘The plants grow from three to four feet high. 
Occasionally the seeds give very pretty irregular full, single, Chrysanth> 
emum-like flowers. 15c per pkt, 
