HENRY A. DREER 



Annual Flower Seeds 



WHOLESALE CATALOG 



Beauty Asters 



This type Is most valuable on account of Its late 

 flowering, coming into bloom fully two weeks later than 

 our Superb Late Branching and furnishing high-grade 

 cut flowers from early October until killing frost in 

 November. The plants are unusually vigorous. They 

 grow from 2% to 3 feet high and bear a great quantity 

 of perfect blooms. 



Tr. pkt. Oz. 

 Azure Blue (W.B.). Azure blue or dark 



lavender $0 40 $1 75 



Carmine-Rose (W.B.)- Rich cherry rose.. 40 1 75 



Crimson ("W.B.)- A lovely rich color 40 1 75 



Purple CW.B.). Rich lustrous deep purple 40 1 75 

 Shell Pink ("W.R.). Delicate shell pink.... 40 1 75 



Wliite (W.B.)- Purest white 40 1 75 



Finest Mixed (W.B.) 30 1 50 



Improved Ciego Giant Aster 



Improved Crego Giant Asters 



Magnificent fluffy flowers, averaging over 5 inches 

 across, with long, strong stems, the finest of this type. 

 Comes into bloom In August, continuing well Into Sep- 

 tember, and unlike most of the Comet sorts, stands 

 when cut and is a good flower to ship. We offer six 

 colors of the highest quality. 



Crimson (W.B.). Deep rose-crimson $0 30 



lavender (W.B.). A rich deep shade... 



Pin It (W.B.). Delicate shell pink 



Purple (W.B.). Bright purple 



Bose (W.B.). Rich deep rose 



Wmte (W.B.). Purest white 



Finest TVHixed (W.B.) 



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Oz. 



30 



$1 50 



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California Giant Aster 



Improved California Giant Asters 



A splendid midseason to late flowering strain, the 

 result of years of painstaking selection by one of Cali- 

 fornia's leading hybridizers. The plants grow 3 to 3% 

 feet high. They have long, strong stems, 18 to 24 

 inches in length, bearing beautifully formed, curled, 

 and interlaced flowers, 5 inches and over across. 



Appleljlossom . 

 Ijavender-Blae 

 Pea<^'blO8B0iu . 

 Par* Wblte . . . 

 Deep Parple . . 

 Blob. Boae . . . . 



Any of 



tbeso 



Tr. pkt. 40c; 



oz. $2.25 



Finest mixed. Tr. pkt. 40c; oz. $2.00. 



King Asters 



Finest Mixed (W.B.). Of strong sturdy habit, growing 

 fully 18 Inches high, and bearing from August to 



October very large double blossoms, the petals of 

 which are more or less quilled. Tr. pkt. 30c; oz. $1.60. 



W. R. = Wilt-Resistant Asters 



The development of Wilt-Resistant Asters repre- 

 sents one of the greatest advances ever made through 

 plant selections. Years of painstaking and careful 

 work were required to develop Wilt-Resistant va- 

 rieties which make it possible to grow good Asters 

 on soil infected with wilt disease. The seed we 

 offer, of varieties marked W.R., has been gathered 

 from plants that have proved immune to the or- 

 ganism which causes fusarium wilt. 



Growers must realize that wilt of Asters is caused 

 by an entirely different organism than Aster Yellows. 

 Where Aster Yellows interfere with growing a good 

 crop of flowers it will be necessary to grow the 

 crop under a protection of Aster cloth which pre- 

 vents leaf hoppers and other sucking insects from 

 carrying the disease virus from weeds of adjacent 

 fields to your Aster plants. 



Even where Asters are grown in Aster cloth houses 

 it is essential to use Wilt-Resistant strains where- 

 ever there is danger that the wilt organism is pres- 

 ent in the soil. 



Starting' Early Vegetable and Flowering' Plants Under G-lass (Nissley). $3.25 per copy postpaid. 



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