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New Hardy Aster Novi-BELgn Climax 



Dwarf Alpine Hardy Asters 

 Summer-flowering Hardy Asters 



Are offered on page 181 



PLANS OF HARDY BORDERS 



These are shown together with list of suitable plants in our 

 Special Catalogue of Hardy Plants. Copies free on request. 



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Hardy Asters, or Michaelmas Daisies 



FALL-FLOWERING HARDY 

 ASTERS 



(Michaelmas Daisies, or Starworts) 



These are among the showiest of our late-flowering hardy 

 plants, giving a wealth of bloom during September and October, 

 a season when most other hardy flowers are past, and for the 

 best effect should be planted in masses of one color. They grow 

 freely in any soil. The collection offered below is made up of 

 the choicest varieties only, the weedy sorts being eliminated. 

 Abendrothe. Very effective rosy red flowers. 2J feet. 

 Formosissimus. Bright violet; 3 feet. 

 Lasvis floribunda. Light heliotrope; 4 feet. 

 Novae anglise. Bright violet purple; 4 feet. 



Lil Fardell. Bright mauve; 4 feet. 



RosetJS. Bright purplish-mauve; 4 feet. 



Novi=Belgii St. Egwin, A bright pink on strong bushes, 



2$ to 3 feet high; during September and October. 

 Peggy Ballard. A small semi-double lavender-blue; 4 feet. 

 Snowflake. Very free, pure white; 18 inches. 

 Tataricus. Distinct large bluish-violet; very late; 6 feet. 

 Top Sawyer. Clear parma-violet color; 4 feet. 

 White Queen. Fine pure white; 4 feet. 

 Price. Any of the above, 20 cts. each; $2.00 per doz. ; $12.00 



per 100. Set of 12 varieties for $2.00. 



New or Scarce Hardy Asters 



Feltham Blue. One of the most decorative free-flowering 

 blue varieties, a pretty shade of aniline blue, produced on 

 freely branched plants during August and September; 2£ feet 

 high. 

 Glory of Colwall. A splendid improvement on the variety 

 Beauty of Colwall, with good-sized, nearly double, ageratum- 

 blue flowers, remarkably free flowering; 2£ feet. September 

 and October. 35 cts. each; $3.50 der doz. 

 Grandiflorus. Not a new sort, but one of the finest of all, 

 and distinct in character and flower from all others. The 

 flowers, of a lovely dark bluish- violet, frequently measure 2 

 inches in diameter. It is the latest to flower — October and 

 November — and by lifting the plants can be flowered in con- 

 nection with Chrysanthemums, where its effect is very beautiful; 2 

 to 21 feet high. 35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz. 

 Novi Belgii Climax. In this splendid new variety we have the 

 most important addition to Michaelmas Daisies yet made, and we 

 believe the forerunner of a distinct type. The plant is of strong, 

 vigorous habit, over 5 feet high, fully one-half of which consists 

 of much-branched pyramidical-shaped flower stems filled with light 

 lavender-blue flowers, each 1\ inches or more in diameter. It 

 blooms from the latter part of August until the middle of October. 

 Thompson i. One of the most beautiful large- flowered sorts yet 

 introduced. The flowers are graceful, stellate form and of a pleas- 

 ing Venetian-blue color; grows 15 to 18 inches high and blooms 

 in July and August. 

 Price, except where noted, 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. Set of 5 

 sorts for $1.25. 



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The varieties offered below are stately, hardy plants, and succeed best 

 in rather heavy soil and where they will not suffer for lack of moisture. 

 Davldi. An important hardy plant. Its 5 to 6 feet high items, 

 which rise from a tuft of pretty dark-green foliage, are crowned with 

 feathery plumes of deep rose-violet flowers during June and July. 

 Grandis. A grand species and a fine companion to A. Davidi, being 

 of similar habit of growth, the panicles of white flowers frequently 

 2 to 2i feet long; the foliage is much dirided and attractive. 

 Either of the above, 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 



For Autumn Flowers get a collection of Chrysanthemums. Seepage 184 



