WALTER S. SCHELL'S QUALITY SEEDS FOR MARKET-GARDENERS 
Pink Enchantress Asters. See page 45 
Schell's Quality Flower Seeds 
It is not difficult to grow flowers in abundance when ScheU's Quality Seeds are sown. A house with 
no green grass around it, only cold hard bare earth, has a very dead, unattractive appearance, but just change the 
barl earth into a lovely lawn and you have made it beautiful indeed. Now, by having flowers in bloom around 
the porch, along the fences, in the flower-beds, outside the windows where they can be f 
the garden borders, in fact, anywhere that they can be grown, will put a lot of joy in the hearts of all who look on 
them. A home without flowers blooming around it is not complete while the one surrounded by an abundance of 
flowers and a well-kept lawn is the kind of a home where young folks and old folks like to stay. 
Grow an Abundance of Flowers— for your own pleasure and profit as well. Fanners, there is no more profat- 
able crop for you to grow and take to market than flowers— they sell quickly and at good prices and they cost very 
little. My Flower Seeds are the Best that Grow. 
How to Grow Flowers. Flowers are divided into three classes: Annuals, Biennials, and Perennials, and 
these three are each divided into two kinds: Hardy and Half-hardy, as follows: 
other than nature. Sow the seeds outdoors last of April or 
during May and they will begin blooming the next season and 
Hardy Annuals. Seeds of these may be sown in the open 
ground or garden earlv in the spring, last of April or during May. 
These will bloom abundantly the first year and die in the fall. 
HaU-hardy Annuals. These should be sown in boxes in- 
doors or in hotbeds in March or April, and the plants set out in 
the place they are to bloom in the garden, in May. They wiU 
bloom first season, then die. 
Hardy Biennials. Sow the seed of these outside during the 
last of April or during May; they will not bloom until the fol- 
lowing year, after which they die. 
Hall-hardy Biennials. Sow the seeds in the house in boxes 
or in hotbeds in March or April, set the plants out where they 
arc to bloom in May.fThey will bloom the following year.then die. 
Hardy Perennials. When once started these will bloom year 
after year and will not freeze out or die unless by some influence 
It i« Tmnnrtant to Have a Good Secd-Bed where the tiny new-born plants will be properly nursed 
iust as unreasonaSe to explct to^ow succefsfully, strong, vigorous plants that will bloom abundantly in soil 
mtSerly pre°p?red\n^ and proper moisture, as '".f P-^<=' ^ "f^^^^-^^^^^^ Fulve'r^ed Shiep 
dr^ o^t or the tender sprouts will d^e and thaf will end it as far as that seed is concerned. When moistening the 
have marked which class each flower belongs to. 
continue for years, or by starting indoors or in hotbeds and set- 
ting plants out in May, some of the hardy perennials wdl bloom 
the first year and thereafter each succeeding year. The seed 
may also be sown during July and August outside, and these 
plants will bloom the next season and thereafter. These are 
hardy and need no protection over winter, but a covering of 
strawy manure or leaves will be very beneficial. 
Hali-hardy Perennials. Sow the seed indoors in boxes or 
in hotbeds in March:Or April. Some of these are especially suited 
for pot culture; others may be set out in the garden in May but 
must be taken up in the fall before frost and grown in pots in 
the house during the winter. They will bloom during the winter 
or the next season and each succeeding year. 
It is 
keep the 
You will note I 
ASTERS 
EARLY ASTERS 
SCHELL'S EARLIEST WHITE. The earliest A.ster 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. 
, THE FAVORITE 
Hardy Annual p^^L FLOWER 
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. 10 cts., 'Aoz. I2, '/lOZ. 
$3.50, oz. $7. 
QtlEEN OF THE MARKET. This variety is extra early, 
following my Earliest White. The plants are dwarf and branch- 
ing. The flowers arc very double and valuable for cutting. 1 
have it in the following separate colors: Pure white. Pink, 
Crimson, Blue, and All Colors Mixed. Each, pkt. 5 cts., 
yioz. 40 cts., yioz. 70 cts., oz. $1.25. 
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