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COLE'S GARDEN ANNUAL 



NEW WHITE BRANCHING ASTER. 



Absolutely the NEW BRANCH- 

 ING has no superior. It is easily 

 grown 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 thai 

 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 ordinai-y Aster, The 

 plant continues to grow later in 

 the season than any other variety 

 with which we are acquainted, 

 and biooms 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, Vllmorln-Andrlonx & 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 flve to six Inches across, 

 with lonjf 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 this variety 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. 



NEW ESGIiSCHOLTZIfl, ''Golden West." 



Thf flowers of this now giant variety, inoasuro from 4 to 6 inchos in diameter. They have large 

 ovorlapping petals, often delicately waived at tho edges. In some an orange blotch almost suffuses 

 the whole flower, in others it runs into the yellow in fine penciled lines. Their intense and shining 

 color, imraenso sizo and lovely forms, call forth the most enthusiastic expression of admiration. 



Price per pkt. 5 cts. 



