SHOWN IN COLORS ON OPPOSITE 
PLATE. 
loamy one, with a mulching of rotted manure around the plants to insure sufficient moisture and protect the roots which are produced near the 
‘oy all annuals grown, Asters are the greatest favorites, of easy culture, succeeding with every one and growing in any good soil, responding to a rich, 
‘ surface from the hot sun. 
offer this year are great advances. 
California Giant Branching Comet Asters. 
For garden beds no other annual can equal Asters in perfection of flowers and rich and varied colors. The new sorts we 
SEE COLORED PLATE OPPOSITE. 
Comet Asters, a comparatively new type, are winning enthusiastic admiration from all who see them. 
They are so large, so beautiful, so unique in their 
charming grace, so free from the formal stiffness heretofore characteristic of Asters, it would seem the highest possible perfection has been attained. The 
flowers of immense size, averaging 4 to 5 inches across, and even 6 inches across, are very double, composed of long, wavy, twisted petals, arranged into 
Ioose yet dense hali-globes, resembling Japanese Chrysanthemums, and being borne on stems, 16 to 24 inches long, gives them an added value when cut for 
vases. The plants of these new California Giant Branching Comet Asters (see cut) are of strong, healthy and luxuriant growth, attaining a height of 
about 2 feet, branching out freely into well-formed bushes, each plant bearing from 50 to 75 magnificent flowers. 
VARIETIES AND PRICES OF CALIFORNIA GIANT BRANCHING COMET ASTERS: 
White Striped Pinker iccicccssscscestectecoosesscccecncesrerecestscecesesensercisentes Pkt. 15e. 
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Clear) Carmine » .o.3.cco5 i ioewvcsceccoescooscccuscssccccudesesuunnestuutenpennccusesereenseeeeaey Pkt. 15¢c. 
Snow White (see colored plate OPPOSite) .......ccc.cc--sseeeeeecesseceeeneeeeeeceneneees 15c.. 
The collection of California Giant Branching Comet Asters, one pkt. each of the above four sorts, 50c. 
California Giant 
‘¢ Silver Tipped ”’ 
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See Colored Plate opposite. 
A new section of great beauty. The 
plants, about 18 inches high, grow 
rugged and branching, and bear in 
abundance very large elegantly form- 
ed double flowers about 3% inches 
across, composed of regular, slightly 
recurved broad petals. The tip of each 
petal being silvery white, brings out 
in exquisite relief the warm rose-pink 
or brilliant blue in the depths of the 
flower. 
Silver Tipped Rose Pink..Pikt.15c. 
New Dwarf Mignon 
AStORS 2 taen tons entre 
See Colored Plate opposite. 
The Mignon Asters are a compara- 
tively new class which have been 
worked up from the Victorias, on 
which they are a great improvement, 
which is saying much, for the Victorias 
have long been considered one of the 
best types grown. In this New Dwarf 
Mignon Aster we offer one of the best 
dwarf Asters grown, differing from the 
tall Mignons onlyin habit. The plants 
grow about 10 inches high, branching 
out just above the soil, the long stalks: 
earrying gracefully-poised large semi- 
globular flowers of perfect shape. 
Dwarf Mignon, crimson (see color 
Silver Tipped Blue (see colored 
Plate OPPOSIbE),.......-.0222-0cceeeesess 15c. 
@ne pkt. each of the above two 
Silver Tipped Asters for 25c. 
CALIFORNIA GIANT BRANCHING COMET ASTER. 
ed plate opposite) ............ Pkt. 20c. 
Dwarf Mignon, white.. ........... 20c.. 
One pkt. each of the above two 
Dwart Mignon Asters, 3&ce. 
Tom Thumb Comet Aster—White. 
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This beautiful new Aster is the result of a cross between the Giant Comet and the Dwarf Chrysanthemum-flowered Asters. 
From the former it has inherited: 
the elegant form and size and doubleness of its pure white flowers, measuring 4 inches across, while from the latter it gets its dwarf, compact habit of growth, 
which does not exceed 8 inches in height, thus making it especially valuable as a pot plant, as well as for garden decoration. 
One particularly good point 
about this Aster is its earliness—the flowers open early in July, even before the ‘‘Queen of the Market’’; it is, therefore, the earliest of all large-flowering 
_ white Asters. Price per packet, 25c. 
Improved ‘‘ Japanese Tassel ” 
Aster. 
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This new and beautiful type of Aster is strikingly distinct and continues long 
in flower. The flowers are of immense size, measuring 5 to 6 inches across, with 
long petals curiously waved and curled, giving them the appearance of the most 
disheveled Japanese Chrysanthemum. The plants are vigorous and free flower- 
ing, growing about 15 inches high. ‘The colors are flesh pink, white, rose, crim- 
son, lavender and violet, which we offer in mixed colors..................0+- Pkt. 15¢. 
Upright White Aster. fick. 
A tall variety (830 inches high), carrying 20 to 25 very large and very double 
pure white flowers on the top of the plant. The stems are stiff and strong, and 
from 20 to 24 inches long, and, in consequence, of exceptional value for cutting. 
As the plants grow in small circumference they may be planted 16 inches apart, 
rendering them an ideal florists’ flower for cutting.................ccceeceeeeeeees Pkt. 15c. 
Long-.. 
Stemmed 
——New “Daybreak” Aster. 
A most beautiful bushy, branching Aster, growing about 2 feet high, with 
large double flowers composed of incurved petals, almost as regularly placed as 
ina Dahlia. The coloring is an exquisite tint of rosy shell-pink, the flowers are 
borne upright on stiff long steins, and the plants in bloom are charming beyond 
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—New German Asters.—= 
Boltze’s Miniature Dwarf Bouquet Aster, scarlet. Extremely brilliant 
color of  thisfree-flowering CwWarfi ClaSSit..c,ccccecsseseeccoscvceccccasareuenceteoneeee Pkt. 20c. 
Queen of the Market Aster, deep scarlet. Magnificent color of this earliest- 
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Triumph Aster, deep violet. Welcome addition to this finest of all dwarf 
classes. The flowers are of true peony form, very double and of a satiny deep 
violet : 25c. 
Dwarf Chrysanthemum Perfection Aster, pure white. Improved dwarf 
Chrysanthemum Aster; flowers very large, extremely double and of faultless 
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Dwarf Queen Aster, vermilion. Brilliant and unique coloring, of great 
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