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“JAPANESE TASSEL” ASTER. 
This new type of Aster is strikingly distinct. 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 Chrysan- 
themum. ‘The plants are vigorous, growing about 15 inches high. (See cut.) Mixed Colors.................. Pkt. 10 
BALL-SHAPED OR JEWEL ASTERS. 
A magnificent new class. The flowers are perfectly round or ball-shaped, densely double, 9 inches in circumference, 
short incurved petals. Plants sturdy. 2 feet. 
Pure White...Pkt.10 Crimson...Pkt.10 Apple Blossom. Salmon pink...Pkt.10 Azure Blue...Pkt. 10 
Mixed Colors........ 10 The collection of 4 separate sorts for 80c. 
SEMPLE’S LATE-FLOWERING BRANCHING ASTERS. 
Superior to any other class of late-flowering Branching Aster, lengthening the Aster season until frost. The 
JAPANESE flowers are large, 4 inches across, are very double, of purest colors, and borne on long stems. They begin blooming: 
TASSEL ASTER. about the first of September. Plants 
strong growers, 18 inches to 2 feet 
high. (See cut.) 
Semple’s White.........00..0.. Pkt. 10 POMPON 
‘ Lavender................... 10 CROWN 
ae Crimson.... . 10 ASTER. 
Se Shell Pink.... 10 
The collection, above 4 sorts, 30¢. 
Semple’s Asters, Mixed Colors..10 
German “St. John’s” Day 
Asters. 
These are valuable on account of 
their extreme earliness. They were in 
bloom on our grounds the past sum- 
mer on June 20th, fully two weeks 
earlier than ‘Queen of the Early”’ 
Asters, and quite a month earlier than 
any other varieties, all sown at the 
same time. The plants are round and 
compact, about 10inches high, bearing 
about 25 medium-sized very double 
flowers. Mixed Colors......... Pkt. 10 
POMPON CROWN ASTERS. 
These grow compactly, about 12 inches high, branch- 
ing out freely, bearing great numbers of densely double 
flowers 2 to 2% inches across. Each flower has a 
distinct white centre encircled with some other 
color. 
Mized Colors.............ccc secs Pkt. 10 
Pink. White centre.... ee 
Crimson. White centre.......... 
Lavender Blue. White centre. 2 
Dark Indigo. White centre.....................+. 10 
Collection of above 4 named Asters, 30c. 
QUEEN OF THE EARLIES. 
The earliest of all by nearly three weeks. 
Plants are dwarf and very branching, bloom- 
ing very freely; very double flowers borne on 
very long stems, rendering them of exceptional 
value for cutting. 
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Betteridge’s Quilled Asters. An im- 
proved strain, with large double flowers, 
composed of tube or quill-shaped petals, 2 
feet high. (See cut.) Mixed Colors...Pkt. 5 
“‘Ball of Fire’’ Aster. Brilliant, blood- 
scarlet color. The plants are of compact 
pyramidal habit, about 12 inches high; flowers 
medium size, very double, and borne in remark- 
Able AHUNGANCE...1.......-ccscescec--cosssercossnssavsescosse 10 
China. Mixed Colors. A tall, globe-flowered, 
double-flowering class, very largely sold, but by no 
means equal to the improved varieties................... 5 
Crown, or Cocardeau. The centre of each flower is 
white, surrounded by a broad margin of color, such as 
crimson, rose, violet, etc.; flowers large and freely pro- 
duced; height, 18 inches to 2 feet. 
Mixed Colors, 10c.; Collection of 6 separate colors, 40c. 
Dwarf Pyramidal Bouquet. Pretty class; very profuse, 
producing 20 to 50 heads of bloom; grows 1 foot high. 
Mixed Colors, 10c.; Collection of 6 separate colors, 30c. 
Giant Emperor Asters. This variety produces the largest flower of any, but at the expense of 
quantity ; flowers measure 6 inches and over in diameter, and are perfectly double; height, 18 inches. 
Mixed Colors, 10c.; Collection of 6 separate colors, 40c. 
“Marvel”? Aster. Compact and bushy, about 18 inches high, bearing in profusion and in long 
succession very double flowers 3% inches across; the three outside rows of recurved petals are pure 
white, encircling the raised centre of incurved petals, which are of a rich blood-red color. The effective 
combination of colors is MOSt StTIKiING.................cecceecencee es eceeeeeeeceeesseeeaeees 
Triumph Aster. The most beautiful and perfect of all dwarf Asters. 
8 QUILLED.”’ 
ch plant forms an elegant 
bouquet 7 to 8 inches high, of at least 30 to 40 flowers. The flowers, of rich blood-searlet, measure ° 
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hi Victoria Needle. Flowers very double and large; petals twisted as round as knitting-needles, unique 
. and charming. Plants grow about 18 inches high, branching and floriferous. Mixed Colors....... 10 
WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS THINK OF HENDERSON’S ASTER SEEDS. 
“<7 want to tell you that I had “The Victoria Glowing Dark “My Jubilee Collection of As- 
A } \ q : fine success with my Comet Asters | Scarlet Aster seed I got from | ters were magnificent; I never 
SEMPLE’S Y PAWS ‘ last year. They Were beautiful. | YOu last year produced thefinest | saw anything to equal them, so 
‘ kant g ; plants and flowers of any Asters | large and so many varieties.”’ 
I ever raised or saw. They were | Mrs. J. E. Rhoades, Canaan, Ct. 
the admiration of my neighbors; 
Morethan one box ofexquisitely 
beautiful flowers were cut from 
my lovely beds of Asters and sent | they were nicer than any that I “My Comet and Mignon Asters 
to my friends in your city.” saw at the Indiana State Fair | ordered from you have been 
Mrs. Albert F. Davis, last fall.’ Henry C. Wilson, greatly admired.’ 
Rutland, Vt. Covington, Ind. Mrs. C. Kamm, Portland, Ore. 
WE DELIVER FREE anywhere in the United States, direct fo the Planter, all Vegetable Seeds, Flower Seeds and BUIDS {nec seten. 
