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JOHNSON & STOKES, PHILADELPHIA 



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AQUILEGIA {Colump,ine). 



This plant blooms early in tlie spring and summer, and 

 produces beautiful, curiously formed and variously colored 

 flowers; hard v perennials. 



240. A. Single. All colors mi.sed; 2 ft. Pkt., 5c. 



241. A. Double. All colors hiixed ; 18 in. Pkt., 5c. 



242. A> Clirysantlia (Golden Spurred Columbine). 

 This is one of the finest perennials for the border evergrown. 

 FloH-erfe of the most intense primrose yellon- throughout, 

 Avith long, slender spurs; fragrant and exceedingly showy. 

 l'kl.,5c. 



ASTERS. 



CROWN ASTER. 



339. The centre of each flower is white, surrounded by 

 abroad margin of color, sach as crimson, rose, violet, etc. ; 

 flowers large and freelv produced; height, 18 inches to 2 

 feet. Pkt., lOc; 3pkts.'25c. 



OERM \N QUILLED ASTER. 



Flowers composed of tube or quill-shaped petals. Verv 

 beautiful, with a great variety of colors. 



3U. German Quilled. (Belleridrje's Prize.) Mixed, h 

 3.!2. " " Pure white 5 



AQVILEGIA CHKYs.\XTH.\ .^LB.X. Pkt 



243. A. Chrysantha Alba (Xew Pure llliite Spurred 

 Cnlumhinn. This pure while v iriety has flowers of the 

 1 ^rge-it si/.e, jinre snow white, With long spurs of elegant 

 s!iai>e, anil boine in lavislKpiaMtit.v. Pkt., 10c. 



244. A..Skinneri. A magnificent columbine, with 

 crimson sepals, lined ivith light green, and light green petals, 

 and lv>ng, straight, era».s'o» spni-s. One of tlie finest. I'kt., 

 ID.-. 



245. A. Coernlea. Flowers are ver.v large, violet blue, 

 and inner ijetals pure white; 2 ft. Pkt., lOc. 



ARISTOLOCHIA (Dulchma^.-s Pipe\ 

 An attractive, quick-gro^^'ing, hardy perennial, with large, 

 heartrshapeil leaves and flower.s of singular formation, re- 

 sembling a i)ipe; 3 ft. 



2i)0. A. »ipUo. Flowers brownish purple. Pkt., 10c. 



2"il. A. Elegans. A rapid growing climber with verv 

 novel flowers: color, e.'?ternally, white veined with purple; 

 iateriiallv. rich, purplish brown, irregularly marked with 

 white. Thelilossoms are borne profuselv, even on small 

 plants. Pkt., 10c. 



ARMERIA. (.SeePm/v.) 

 ^90. A. >Iaritinia. Avery handsome, compact grow- 

 ing plant, well adapted to rock-work, edgings, etc.; fiowei"S 

 ros.v pink. Hardy pereunial; y^ ft. Pkt., 10c. 



ARNEBIA CORNUTA. 



295. This charming novelty from Asia forms a dense 

 glooular bush, 'Withadiameterof about twofeet. Its curious 

 an 1 exceedingly Ijeautiful flowers evpand dailv in succession 

 and iugj'eata'>undance. Thej' areof an agreeable rich yellow 

 and marked with fine, large black spols, which turn to deep 

 maroon on the sec6nd day and en'.irely vanish on the next 

 da.v, beconting a clear yellow. It flowers with unusual pro- 

 fu.si-on during, the whole of the summer, and from one huu- 

 dreil to one hundred and fift.v spikes of flowers maybe seen 

 on one plp.nt. ,Pkt., 20c. 



333. 



ASTERS— Contiimed. 

 I>EEP SCARLET TRIUMPH ASTER. 



This is midoiibtedl.v the most beautiful and perfect 



of all dwarf Asters. Each i)lant forms an elegant bouquet 

 of itself, seven or eight inches high. The flowers measure 

 from two and one-half to three inches across, of faultless 

 form. The color is rich, brilliant scarlet; each plant bears at 

 least thirty or fortv flowers of exquisite beauty. I'kt., 15c.; 

 2 pkts., 25c. 



NEW QUEEN OF THE EARLIEST ASTER. 



At our Floj-acroft Trial Grounds, this Aster sown out of 

 doors bloomed ahead of plants that had been started under . 

 glass six weeks before. They are dwarf plants with fine 

 large flowers ot beautiful form. The.v are without doubt the 

 very earliest aster listed. If weather is propitious the.v may 

 be had in bloom by the beginning of Jul.v. 



347. Queen of tlie Earliest. Pure white . . . Pkt., 10 

 34S. Queen of the Earliest. Jlixed colore . . "10 



TRVFFAVT'S PJEOSY PERFECTION ASTER. 



Truffaut's Paeony Perfection Aster. A ver.v favorite 

 type. Thrift.v, upright j>lants; large, fine flowers, with long 

 incurved petals. Theflorists' aster and one of the finest. 



PER PKT. 



A. Pseony Perfection 



320. 

 321. 

 322. 

 323. 

 324. 

 325. 

 326. 



Finest mixed, .... 10 



Satin white, 10 



Crimson 10 



Dark blue, . . 10 



Violet with white, . . 10 



Rose " " . . 10 



White " carmine, 10 



DW^ARF CHRYSANTHEMUM FLOWERED 

 ASTERS. 



Plants onlv ten to twelve inches high, producing flowers 

 of the largest size and choicest colors. 



327. A. Chrysanthemum Flowered. Mixed, . . 10 



323. " " Pure white, 10 



VICTORIA ASTERS. 



A magnificent race of asters. The colors include many 

 delicate and some gorgeous shades ; flowers very double and 

 four iuches, across, and from twenty to thirty in a single 

 plant ; fifteen to eighteen incHies high. 



329. A. Victoria. Choice mixed 10 



330. " Pure white 10 



NEW PEARL ASTER. 



This entirely new and distinct class of Asters is superior 

 to most otlier types. The plants form handsome ijyramids 

 about fifteen inches high, and are literally covered with a 

 mass of the most perfect flowers, round in shape, and three 

 and one-half to four inches in diameter, finely and fully im- 

 bricated and borne on long stems. They are most 

 admirably adapted for pots and bordere, and especially 

 valuable for eut flowers. 



337. N-w Pearl. Mixed Pkt., 10 



338. " " Pure white " 10 



