ecialties 
and Novelties for Season 1922 
Beauty Aster 
Ferguson's Beauty Asters 
Tho first of this entii-elv new type of Aster was American 
Beauty, introauced in 1917. In 1919 added Purple Beauty 
and now we are able to offer two other most desirable varieties 
— September Beauty and Lavender Beauty. The Beauty 
Asters are sirnilar in type of flower and crrowtli to the well- 
known Late-Branching .\ster. but the large flowers are later in 
blooming and are carried on much longer and heavier stems. 
The plants are robust. to 3 feet tall, bearing immense 
flowers 4 to 5 inches in diameter, gracefully carried on strong 
stems. They are invaluable as cut-flowers and fill the season 
between other late .\stcrs and the early Chrysanthemums. 
.Delicate, soft ahell-pink. A 
beautiful and rare color among 
Flowers large anil 
Pkt.. 20 cts. 
.Bright rosy-carmine, the shade 
of the world-famous .\merican 
A. deep glowing purple of e.xciuisite 
color. Pkt.. 20 cts. 
September Beautyi 
Asters. Pkt.. 20 cts. 
Lavender Beauty. --S^v'S"- 
American Beauty. 
Beiiuty rose. I'kt.. 20 cts. 
Purple Beauty. 
Rnca Roniitv This is identical in growth of plant and 
rvuac ucauLy. length of stems as the Atiierican Beauty, 
but a lighter .shade of bright pink. Pkt.. 20 cts. 
A packet of each of the above for 85 cts. 
N«»w Astor "H«»lv*»t!a " .'Single, late flowering, 
ew ASier, neiveiia. described by the 
raiser as follows: "A hybrid from the .\merican late branching 
type, and producing, on long steins, brjIUant, deep crimson 
flowers, similar in color to the variety "General .Joflre." in the 
sinensis section, a color raiich desired in late asters, and in this 
.Vovolty the habit of the plant is tall, thus rendering the flow- 
ers invaluable for cutting, ^kt., 25 cts. 
New Aster, "Heart of France."-'};^,^^^^^/,': 
ler ever introduced. AW otiiers have somber shades of blue oi' 
too much yellow in the color pigments. Heart of France opens 
red as the purest ruby, deepens with age and retains its re- 
markable beauty to the very end. The petals appear strikingly 
changeable, showing now a glow and sheen quite unique, now 
a soft warm velvely te.Nture. In any light, natural or artificial. 
Heart of France is startlingly beautiful and will command in- 
stant admiration. The flowers are largo and f'.iU with never a 
trace of hollow center. The plants are of branching type and 
very robust habit. The stems are long and strong and havt- 
very few laterals. The plants begin to bloom quite early in 
the season and open fully with the mid-season varieties. Ihey 
retain their brilliancy and luster for a longer period tlian almost 
any other color. Pkt., 25 cts. 
New Aster,"PeerIess Yellow.''-B^[J- «J« -"^^ 
low Aster yet produced. The flowers are large, remarkablj 
fuU and ball-shaped, with centers so deeply covered with curled 
and twisted florets, that the variety is almost a record-breaker 
in .scarcity of producing seed. Every flower will come a beau- 
tiful chrysanthemum-yellow. The plant« are of branclnne 
type and very vigorous. A single plant will frequently havi 
from 20 to .30 good flowering stems of sufficient loiigth and 
flowers of ample size for fancy cut flower pm-jjoses. .So num- 
erous and large are the flowers that the j)lants are completely 
covered like a golden dome. i*kt., 25 cts. 
Aefor Pafifir- Roaiitv .■^ new variety of the Giant 
f\SX.er, racinc oeaucy. comet type; the petals are 
wide and long and so gracefully cmled as to give it an un- 
usually attractive appearance. The plants are of vigorous growth, 
bearing a profusion of immense flowers, often measuring to 
6 inches in diameter. Color is a beautiful shade of rich lav- 
ender. Blooms from n)id-season to late. Pkt., 25 cts. 
New Aster, Vick's Silvery Rose-^^^-^;^--^l^- 
of which we quote from tho introducers: "A robust, long- 
stemmed, large flowering variety. Every petal is a combina- 
tion of deep lilac rose, almost cerise, very delicately threaded 
with white. The threads are so tiny as to give the petals a 
silvery sheen. Even the slightest change in light will shade tlw 
petals from a rich, glowing rosy cerise to a silvery rose." Per 
pkt. 25 cts. 
Aet-sr Rail's WViito ■'^ Sphere of Pure White Petals. 
ASCer, oail 8 wniie. The -seed of this splendid Giant 
.\ster of the Late Branching type — the product of twelve 
years' selection to develop tho ideal of a perfectly double 
flower, of flawless color — was ofl'erod in 1921 for the 
flrst time. In the Fall of 1908. George ,1. Ball, a Sweet 
Pea and .\ster specialist, selected a plant among his Late 
Brandling White Asters on which the flowers were solidl.\ 
double, so much so that from eight to ten flowers only flfty 
seedlings were grown the following year. It has been grown 
and the seed carefully selected every siason since. In 191S 
three-quarters of an acre netted 52,320. .An exceptionally good 
market helped, hut this vf>riely lias always sold for f>0% mori- 
than ordinarv White Asters. Tho flowering season comes be- 
tween tlie Koval and Late Branching types, filling in between 
the early and late glut, of flowers. It grows to a medium 
height with full, distinctively centered blossoms, ideally formed 
for long distance shijjpiiig. Tlie seed of this Aster is about 
two-thirds the size of ordiiiai-.v varieties. Pkt.. 25 ts. 
Ask for particulars of Prizes to the value of $30.00 
we offer for collection of Asters. 
Alyssum Procumbens.-;^fi>^,^-;;; 
A very 
grown by us 
with the greatest of car('. hal)it 2'-; inches high and about 12 
to IS incuts in diameter and lias the appearance of a nice flat 
pancake. The bloOrns are massed, completely hiding all foli- 
age, and a field of this in l)loom h.Ts tlic appearance of being 
covered with snow. Pkt.. 15 cts. 
New Giant Flowered Antirrhinums 
Immense .spikes 2 to 2^2 feet high, of very largo, beauti- 
fully colored flowers. 
'The Antirrhinum now I'ivals the Sweet P(;a and Carruitions 
in popularity, and is grown extensively \mdiT glass as well a- 
for l)edding out. The graceful spikes arr rxc-eliciit I'oi- vasrs 
and general decorative purposes. Planteil in beds, borders, oi- 
among shrubbery, they pi'esent a most striking ell'cct. 
Tlie varieties offered below arc the liest and most improved 
of tlie largest flowering sorts. 1 he blooms are double the size 
of the oldi'r kinds. 
D:.>L- Ro!>iii-<r Deep rose-pink self, enormous blooms. 
rmK oeauiy. pi^j 20cts. 
Deep rosc-pink with white cen- 
ter. The immense blooms are 
Pkt., 20 cts. 
Feltham Beauty. 
the largest yet inlroduced. 
Orange Beauty. 
Pkt.. 20 cts. 
C A charming rich chamois sliaded pink, an 
apuvaiion. „nique color. Very large flower, fine 
sj)iko, free flowering. .A i)erfect gem in .Vntirrliinums. Pkt,, 
20 cts. 
.Very large flowers of a lovely 
orange-scarlet with golden lip. 
