DREER'S 

 FAMOUS ASTERS 



ASTERS are one of the most important summer and autumn flowers, 

 and receive special care at our hands. Yearly exhaustive tests of 

 both home-grown and imported stocks are made with a view to offering 

 only the choicest kinds, regardless of cost. As a result of this care, our 

 list comprises only such sorts as can be planted with perfect confidence 

 that nothing better is procurable, no matter at what price or from what 

 source. 



Asters will thrive in any good soil, prepared in the same way as you 

 would for a crop of vegetables, but it is well to remember that any extra 

 care taken in the preparation of the soil is repaid by finer plants, larger 

 blooms, with longer stems and more profuse flowering. They should 

 have an open, sunny position, and prefer a good, heavy, loamy soil, 

 enriched with a liberal quantity of thoroughly rotted manure, and the 

 addition of wood ashes or air-slaked lime, and we do not advise growing 

 them on the same ground year after year ; it is better to change each 

 season. 



For early flowering the seed should be started in the greenhouse, 

 hot-bed or cold-frame in April, transferring them to their flowering quar- 

 ters as soon as danger from frost is past. For August and later flowering 

 it is just as well to sow them in the open in May, preferably in a prepared 

 seed bed, transplanting them when two or three inches high to where they 

 .are to bloom. 



The main essentials to insure fine Asters are a rich soil, frequent 

 cultivation, no check to their growth from start to finish, and ample 

 room to develop. When wanted for cutting with long stems, they should 

 be set out not closer than twelve inches apart in the rows and two feet 

 between the rows. 



HENRY A. DREER 



Flower Seed Specialists 

 714 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, Pa. 



