14 
TWENTIETH CENTURY FRUITS 
Burbank's Giant Perpetual Rhubarb 
I can offer a very few plants of this most desirable of all rhubarbs for 
mild climates. 
Each, 60c; three, $1.50; ten, $3. 
Several other choice varieties at 50c each. 
Artichokes 
Can only offer selected seedlings from a choice standard variety 
this season. Each, 25c; six, $1; ten, $1.50. 
The New Asters 
For many years I have been greatly interested in the American Asters. 
The wild ones grow in every State of the Union, and, though they have 
smaller blooms, less highly colored than the improved China Asters, 
yet the flowers are produced a hundred times more abundantly and 
have fully as charming tints, and the plants can be grown anywhere 
with almost no care or attention and, best of all, are hardy every- 
where and do not have to be renewed each season, but last over from 
year to year. They are greatly prized in Europe and are rapidly becom- 
ing so in America. I have always admired the changing tints of the 
wild ones when crossing the continent anywhere in the Fall, but their 
wonderful decorative beauty is never fully appreciated until brought 
under scientific development through the skill of the plant originator. 
During the past twenty years magnificent new varieties have orig- 
inated on my farms. Among these are new pure deep crimson ones 
with greatly enlarged flowers and snowiest white ones growing thickly 
along the numerous long slender branches, making wreaths of beauty 
for decoration; these arc plants growing six feet in height and as much 
across, with ten thousand flowers each; others with the most rare 
and charming tints of pale and dark blue lavender and purple. I have 
given names to a few of these most decorative of all Fall blooming 
plants and take great pleasure in offering for the first lime this season 
these new beauties. They surpass any before offered anywhere. 
"Wreath of Snow" 
Wonderful bloomer; snow white flowers in most graceful wreaths; 
height six feet. 
"Crimson Cloud" 
This may almost be called semi-double, as the petals are so thickly 
arranged about the yellow disc; flowers very large and pure crimson. 
This color is new in this class of plants. Height two to three feet. 
"Desert Sunset" 
Large lavender blue flowers with a faint tinge of purple. Height 
four feet. 
Any one of these, each, $1; the three, one each, $2.50; ten, your own 
choice of each, $6. 
