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For our complete list of Flower Seeds see pages 101 to 116, 
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SPECIALTIES 
ENDERSON'S JNVINGIBLE 
moma LASTERS... 
Undoubtedly the most universally popular of all garden annuals, orig- 
GHINA ASTERS inally came from China, in 1731. They were then single-flowering- 
9 Their evolution since that time |has been a history of remarkable vari- 
ations, their modern development particularly having resulted in 
several such magnificent types that people not acquainted with these recent advances in Asters can 
scarcely have any conception of the surpassing beauty, brilliancy, size and form of their double 
flowers. 
HEN DERSON’S 
IVINGLDIE Asters. 
A SUPERIOR DRE, 
HEALTHY, ROBUST GROWTH, 
PRODUGING 
LONG-STEMMED FLOWERS 
OF 
IMMENSE SIZE and PERFEGT FORM. 
THEY ARE OF 
SURPASSING BEAUTY 
WHEN OUT FOR VASES 
We introduce to our customers as one of the latest and highest 
HENDERSON’S achievements in China Asters, a superior race in every way. The plants 
are of very healthy, robust, branching growth, about two feet high, 
INVINGIBLE HASTERS producing, on long stems, massive, incurved peony-formed flowers of 
perfect form and faultless outline, and exceedingly double to the very 
centre. The flowers are the most beautifully formed of all large Asters. The petals are of thick 
and durable substance, and, in consequence, the flowers last long in perfection. These Asters are 
wonderfully prolific and continuous bloomers from summer until checked by frost. When grown in 
masses in garden borders, or grouped in beds, their decorative effect is unapproachably gay and 
enlivening. On the opposite page we reproduce a photographic view of a portion of our field of the 
blue variety; it conveys an idea of the freedom of bloom, but does not do the flowers justice, 
because the photo was taken in October, after the best bloom was over, and when the flowers were 
hanging their heads heavy with water, after several days’ rain. When well grown the flowers of 
Henderson’s Invincible Asters average 314 inches across; 4-inch flowers are quite common, and if 
grown especially for cut flowers, the side branches pruned, allowing a plant to carry not over 8 
or 10 flowers, one flower to a stem, their size will then be enormous, measuring 4% and 5 inches 
across. These magnificent blossoms being gracefully poised on strong, well-furnished stems 15 to 18 
inches long, resemble good-sized chrysauthemums, and are unsurpassed as cut flowers for vases and 
home decoration. 
HENDERSON'S INVINCIBLE ASTERS we can offer this season in four charming colors, viz.: 
AND OF 
ROSE-PINK, - - - pkt., 15ce. WHITE, - - - pkt., 15ce. 
INGOMPARABLE EFFEGT LAVENDER, - - - pkt., 15e. BLUE, - - - - pkt., 15c. 
FOR GARDEN BEDS. The collection of Henderson's Invincible Asters, 1 pkt. each of the above four colors, 50c. Each 
packet contains about 100 seeds. 
To every purchaser of above Aster seed we will send free our new leaflet, **LATEST AND BEST 
METHODS OF GROWING ASTERS,’' which tells how to grow them to perfection, both in the garden 
beds and for cut flowers. 
LARGE-FLOWERING, 
; Dwarf, Gompact-growing. 
These form brilliant Garden Beds, flowering 
prodigiously and continuously 
) THE FIRST SEASON FROM SEED (- = 
U HEN traveling in Europe the past summer we continually came across unusually 
effective bedding displays madeentirely from thesenoble little plants; they only grow 
about 6 inches high, are healthy anastocky.andcompletely enveloped with large snap dragon 
flowers of splendid texture and substance, rendering them very durable under all conditions of 
weather; their continuous-blooming qualities, ease of culture and independence of heat and 
drought, and pure bright colorsshould entitle them toa prominent place in American gardens and 
grounds. Although perennials, they do splendidly when grown as annuals; spring-sown seed pro- 
duces flowering plants by July, which continue to bloom in increasing profusion until frost. The 
following varieties we selected as the best for contrasting bedding effects, edgings, ete. (See cut.) 
SNOW BALL, white... -.....2. secs. .csccee Pkt. 10 GOLDEN BALL, pure yellow....... Pkt. 10 
PIR E BAILS Scarlet. .ccvciccccccosscossescseeee 10 KOSE BALL, coral rose \ ok 
ANTIRRHINUM, DWARF LARGE-FLOWERING. MIXED COLORS, containing several pure colors, as Well as striped and mottled Varietie $....10 
FULL CULTURAL INSTRUCTIONS for the various flower seeds are PRINTED ON EVERY PACKET. 
