WALTER S. SCHELLS QUALITY SEEDS FOR MARKET-GARDENERS 
Pink Enchantress Aster 
Hardy Annual 
THE FAVORITE FALL FLOWER 
EARLY ASTERS 
SCHELL*S EARLIEST WHITE. The earliest Aster in 
cultivation. It is earlier than the Extra-Early Queen of the 
Market, or Queen of the Earlies. Ten to twenty immense 
double, feathery flowers are produced by the plants on long 
slender, upright stems. The petals are long and beautifully 
recurved. The ragged, irregular petals in the center of the 
flowers add to the beauty and grace of this earliest of all Asters. 
Planted at the same time, my new Earliest White Aster will 
bloom a week earlier than Queen of the Market. This makes it 
valuable in the markets. White. Pkt. lo cts., Xoz. $1.50, 
yioz. $2.50. oz. $s. 
QUEEN OF THE MARKET. This variety is extra early, 
following my Earliest White. The plants are dwarf and branch- 
ing. The flowers are very double and valuable for cutting. I 
have it irt the following separate colors: Pure White, Pink, 
Crimson, Blue, and All Colors Mixed. Each. pkt. 10 cts., 
Koz. 40 cts., Moz. 70 cts., oz. Si. 25, Xlb. $4- 
EARLY LAVENDER GEM. When first open, the flower 
is an exquisite lavender, deepening with age. The flower is 
always full-double, showing no tendency to produce single or 
semi-double blooms. The fluffy effect of the Ostrich-feathered 
type, to which it belongs, is enhanced by the fact that it bears 
a large proportion of long, partly tubular florets, that are 
irregularly cut and slashed, so that the flower looks like a 
ragged chrysanthemum. The plant is erect and of medium 
height, branching close to the ground. The flowers are borne in 
profusion on long, slender, wiry stems. In season it comes 
between Queen of the Earlies and Daybreak, and is therefore 
classed with the early sorts. To the florist the value of Lavender 
Gem can scarcely be overestimated. Lavender. Pkt. 10 cts., 
Xoz. $1.50. Koz. S2.S0. oz. $s. 
SCHELL^S NOBLE ASTER. In two distinct colors. 
Noble, because the plants arc so vigorous and stand up so 
straight that they cannot but be admired for their firm, upright 
growth. The strong, stiff flower-stems arc long and straight and 
the flowers are unusually large for so early a variety. The flowers 
are so very double and the petals so close that they are almost 
round or globe-shaped. My Noble Asters follow my Earliest 
White in blooming. They arc early but not so early as the 
Earliest White. White, Light Pinli, and Mixed. Each, 
pkt. 10 cts.. }4oz. $1.25, Koz. 52. oz. $4. 
MIKADO, or ROCHESTER. The flowers are immense in 
size, s to 6 inches across, and are borne on long stems. The 
plants grow 18 to 24 inches and are of branching habit. Indeed 
a very valuable variety for garden, show, and for cut-flowers. 
I have it in Pink and in White and these two colors Mixed. 
Pkt. of either 15 cts., ^^oz. Si. 75. Moz. $3. oz. $6, Xlb. S20. 
CREGO. These are of the Giant Comet type, very large 
flowers with curled and ruffled petals as beautiful as chrysan- 
themums and look much like them. White or Pink or both of 
these in Mixed, pkt. 15 cts., Xoz. $1.75. Koz. $3, oz. 
Klb. $20. 
SECOND EARLY ASTERS 
NEW PINK ASTER, "PINK ENCHANTRESS." This 
truly is a magnificent, full-double pink Aster. The flowers grow 
twice the size of the illustration. It is a soft delicate pink, up- 
right in habit of growth, with large, broad leaves, stems long, 
strong and graceful. It blooms between the earliest and the 
late varieties, being midseason. The general effect of the 
large, delicately colored flowers is indescribably soft and 
pleasing. Pkt. 15 ets., 4 pkts. 50 cts., yioz. Si, ^^oz. Si.7Si 
ViOZ. S3, oz. S6. 
SCHELL*S GRANDEST ASTER. Without a doubt this is 
the grandest and most beautiful Aster in cultivation. The im- 
mense, fluffy flowers, measuring 4 to 6 inches in diameter, are a 
glorious mass of gracefully rcflcxed petals, crossing, curling over 
each other in their individual habit, making the finished flowers 
the grandest of oil Asters. The plants are very vigorous and 
the flowers are borne on long, stiff stems. This variety follows 
in bloom the Noble Asters and precedes in bloom the later va- 
rieties. I have two colors only of this Aster. Lavender -Pink, 
Pure White, Mixed (Pink and White). Each, pkt. 15 cts.. 
^oz. Si. 75. Moz. $3, oz. S6. 
DAYBREAK. This beautiful Aster is one of those rare gems 
that have come to stay; no private garden is complete without 
it and for florists' use it is unsurpassed. The flowers are round 
as a ball, very large and full, on long stems; the color a lovely 
sea-shell pink. The plant flowers very early, and is a continu- 
ous, free bloomer, a compact, strong grower. Pink. Pkt. 10 
cts., Koz. $1.25, Vioz. S2.2S. oz. S4.50. 
PURITY. Is a fitting companion to Daybreak, being identi- 
cal with it in form and habit, but the blooms are pure white. 
A finer combination of color cannot well be imagined than the 
massing together of these two beauties, either in bouquet 
groups or for decorative design. White. Pkt. 10 cts., Koz. 
Si. 25, Vioz. $2.2$, oz. S4-S0. 
LATE ASTERS 
SCHELL'S LATE BRANCHING ASTER. This magnifi- 
cent Aster still reigns supreme. It is as well known among 
European as American growers, and every up-to-date florist 
has a fine display in his show windows just before the chrysan- 
themum comes in — in fact it is often mistaken for the chrysan- 
themum, which it very much resembles. It begins blooming 
about August 15 and continues throughout the season. The 
flowers are of extraordinary size, and are borne on long, grace- 
ful stems from 15 to 20 inches in length. The plants are extra 
large and of strong growth. It is unexcelled for cutting, and 
is by far the most satisfactory late Aster grown. Snowy 
White, Pink, Crimson, Purple, Lavender, all in separate 
colors and All Colors Mixed. Each, pkt. 10 cts. l4oz. 40 cts., 
K02. 70 cts.. oz. S1.25, Klb. S4. 
Late Branching Aaters 
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