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COLE'S GARDEN ANNUAL. 



NEW WHITE BRANCHING ASTER, 



Absolutely the NEW BRANCH- 

 ING has no superior. It is easily 

 jjrown from seed and is of great 

 utility and beauty for bedding 

 purposes, coming at a season 

 when there is little else in flower, 

 anticipating as they do the Chrys- 

 anthemum season by a month or 

 six weeks. The flowers are borne 

 on very long stems and are PURE 

 WHITE, of extraordinary size, 

 being four inches and more in 

 diameter. The petals are broad, 

 long, and many of them more 

 or less twisted or curled in such 

 a manner as to give the blooms 

 the appearance of large, loose and 

 graceful Chrysanthemums. The 

 resemblance is so perfect that 

 nearly everyone would so consider 

 them when seen as cut flowers. 

 The plant is a strong grower and 

 its tendency to form numerous 

 branches is very marked, there- 

 fore it should have more room 

 than the ordinary Aster. The 

 plant continues to grow later in 

 the season than any other variety 

 with which we are acquainted, 

 and blooms correspondingly late, 

 thus giving its crop of flowers in 

 late autumn, a season when there 

 is always a scarcity of bloom. 



Price per pkt. 10 cts., 2 pkts. 15 

 cts. 



BRANCHING ASTER, Mixed Colors. 



Similar in habit and growth as the White Branching, but of different colors, such as pink, 

 lavender, crimson, blue and white. Very fine and beautiful; we can recommend this very 

 highly. 



Price per pkt. 10 cts., 2 pkts. 15 cts. 



NEW JAPANESE TASSEL ASTER. 



The introducers, Vilmorin-Andrieux & Co.. of Paris, France, describe this variety as fol- 

 lows: The beautiful flowers of this new strain of Asters offer a most striking contrast with 

 those of any other variety. They are of immense size, measuring from five to six inches across, 

 with long petals curiously waved and curled, so as to give them a striking resemblance with 

 the most disheveled Japanese Chrysanthemums. It is a vigorous growing plant, fourteen or 

 fifteen inches high, well branched, and producing quite a number of those enormous flowers. 



It has obtained a first-class certificate from the French National Horticultural Society, 

 which it well deserves. We can recommend thisvariety as being entirely new from any other 

 variety, and think will be much used as a cut flower. Mixed colors. 



Price per pkt. 10 cts., 2 pkts. 15 cts. 



Pennisetum Ruppelianum. 



( Purple Fountain Ora/tit.) 

 The leaves are narrow, green and long, arching gracefully from the center to a c!r- \ 

 cumference forming a perfect fountain. From July until frost its attractiveness is en- i 

 hanced by feathery purple heads which bond over on their long, slender sta'ks. Eventual- 

 ]y they expand until the whole plant is veiled with nodding clouds of purple. Hardy 

 perennial. Price per pkt. 5 cts. 



