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HENDERSON'S 



INVINCIBLE ASTERS. 



A superior type, of healthy, robust growth, producing long- 

 stemmed flowers of immense size and perfect form. 

 They are of surpassing beauty when cut for vases, and 

 of incomparable effect for garden beds. 



E introduce to our customers as one of 

 the latest and highest achievements in 

 China Asters, a superior race in every way. 

 The plants are of very healthy, robust, 

 branching growth, about two feet high, 

 producing, on long stems, massive, pa?ony- 

 formed flowers of perfect form and fault- 

 less 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 sub- 

 stance, 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. 

 When well grown the flowers of Henderson's 

 Invincible Asters average 3J 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 

 rong; well-leaved stems 15 to 18 inches long, resemble 

 ■sized Chrysanthemums, and are unsurpassed as cut 

 for vases and home decoration. 



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H ENDE RSONS INVINCIBLE ASTERS 



Wc offer in the following colors, viz.: 



ROSE-PINK . . Pkt., 15c. WHITE Pkt, 15c. 



LAVENDER . . Pkt., 15c. BLUE Pkt., 15c. 



CRIMSON . . . Pkt., 15c. Mixed Colors, Pkt., 15c. 

 The COLLECTION of 5 separate colors for 60c 



IN PRAISE OF 



HENDERSON'S INVINCIBLE ASTERS. 



"My 'Henderson's Invincible Asters' were awarded 1st prize at the 

 Port Huron Flower Show — three flowers each of three varieties. There 

 were thirty entries, so you may imagine how pleased I am with my 

 first uear's experience in growing prize Asters." 

 71 " t M. H. WESTBROOK, Port Huron, Midi. 



"1 grew your white. Invincible Asters with stems 2S inches long, 

 flowers h, inches across — all double and perfect flowers." 



J. A. BALLON, Springville, N. Y. 



"I took first premium last September with Invincible Asters; they 

 were beautiful." GERTRUDE L. TRIPP, Yankton, S. D. 



"I never saw any Asters equal to your Imrincibles — they are superb; 

 *urh larae lona-stemmed flowers, and such beautiful delicate colors!" 

 SU " ' Miss E. K. TOMPKINS, Floyd, Va. 



"The Invincible Asters from you last year could not hare been 

 more perfect." Mrs. THOS. M. ASHE, Raleiah, N. C. 



"Last year we had the grandest Asters ever seen. They tcere your 

 i„,,;,„.,|,( f . we had one white flower fully 6 inches across, and the pink 

 ones were' a dream." IDA A. HAUPT, Milton, Pa. 



"My Asters from your \Invincible strain were the best at our flower 

 show; five blooms of the lavender were the best I ever saw, and I hai-c 

 arow'n Asters for 60 years." 

 sro " ' CHAS. JAS. FOX, South London, Canada. 



TO every purchaser of above Aster seed we will send free 

 our hew leaflet, " LATEST AND BEST METHODS OF 

 CROWING ASTERS," which tells how to grow them to 

 perfection, both in the garden beds and for cut flowers. 



