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VroUlUPGRB ASTGRS.* 
Not only the most popular, but the most effective in the entire list. While most easy of culture, there is no flower which 
combines so much beauty and variety of color and shape and habit as the odern Aster. For a late summer or full display 
they have no successful rival. Give them a rich soil, and in hot, dry weather they should be mulched and well watered. 
Truffaut’s Pzeony Perfection Aster. A very 
favorite type. Thrifty, upright plants; large fine flow- 
ers, with long ineurved petals. The florists’ Aster und 
one of the finest. 
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320. A. Pzeony Perfection. Finest mixed; an 
colors, BAIR a CCoNA Noes oe He Bas oloked Pied oe) tO) 
521. A. Peony Perfection. Satin-white, ,.. 10 
322 6 GS Crinisons es) Su 10 
«“ CG Dark blue,. .... 10 
“ ce Violet with white, 10 
! - Rose as by 10 
White with carmine, 10 
DWARF CHRYSANTHEWUM-FLOWERED 
ASTERS. 
Plants only ten to twelve incheshigh; producing 
flowers of the largest size and choicest colors. 
327. A. Chrysanthemum-Flowered. Mixed,. 10 
328. OG Pure white 10 
VICTORIA ASTERS. 
A magnificent race of Asters. The colors include 
many delicate and some gorgeous shades; flowers very 
double and four inches across and from twenty to thirty 
in asingle plant; fifteen to eighteen inches high. 
329. A. Victoria. Choice mixed,........ 15 
330, ss Purehwhite meee e ieee 15 
GERMAN QUILLED ASTER. 
Flowers composed of tube or quilled-shape petals. 
Very beautiful, with a great variety of colors. 
231. German Quilled. (Betteridge’s Prize). Mixed, 10 
332. German Quilled. Pure white, ...... 10 
DEEP SCARLET TRIUMPH ASTER. 
333. This is undoubtedly the most beautiful 
and perfect of all dwarf Asters. Each plant 
TRUFFAUT’S PHONY PERFECTION ASTER. form an elegant bouquet of itself seven to eight 
inehes high. The flowers 
measure from two and one- 
half to three inches across, of 
faultless form. The color is 
rich brilliant searlet; each 
plant bears at Jeast thirty to 
forty flowers of exquisite 
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COMET ASTER. 
334. Its long wavy and twisted 
petals are formed into a loose 
yet dense half-globe, resem- 
bling the Japanese Chrysan- 
themums; flowers three and 
one-half to four and one-half 
inches across. Each petal a 
delicate pink, margined with 
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NEW PEARL ASTER. 
This entirely new and distinct 
elassof Asters is superior to most 
ether types. The plants form 
handsome pyramids about fifteen 
inches high and are _ literally 
covered with amass of the most 
perfect flowers, round in shape, 
and three and one-half to four 
inches in diameter, finely and 
fully imbricated, and borne on 
long stems. They are most 
admirably adapted for pots and 
borders and especially valuable 
for cut-flowers. 
337. New Pearl Mixed, . 25 
3388, if ny Pure 
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COMET ASTER. 
NEW QUEEN ASTER. 
The Finest Dwarf Aster in Cul- 
tivation. (See Novelties.) 
This splendid Aster makes 
dwarf bushy plants about ten 
inches high, of compact habit of 
growth, producing agreat number 
of double flowers, ines Kesemanle 
in shape and size the ictoria 2 Recs 
Meter Gs is excellent for pot CROWN ASTER. AA 
culture and for bedding. As yet there are only two eolors distinct 
enough to be worthy of introduetion. 
395. Satin WhiteQueen, ..--- +--+ +28 s+ esse tee 20 
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CROWN ASTER. ' 
SHON) LARIAT ASI, 399. The centre of each flower is white, surrounded by a proad 
margin of color, such as crimson, rose, violet, ete.; flowers large and freely produced; height, eighteen inches a 
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