THEY GROW BETTER • THEY YIELD BETTER 
FLOWER SEEDS 
My Flower Seeds are the very best that Rrow. If you grow Asters, get my Quality Seed this year and you 
will be greatly pleased. NoU carefully — Do not sow flower seeds too early outdoors. This is the cause of many 
failures. Most flower seeds are tender and must be given gentle care until they are established. The seed should 
not be sown until the ground is thoroughly warm. May is plenty early enough, and the seed will germinate 
better and the plants grow faster than when sown in April. The soil should be made rich and fine, and great 
care should be taken not to get the seed too deep, merely covered; then do not let the top-soil bake hard; pre- 
vent this by sprinkling sand over it and by frequent waterings, using a fine mist. Do not let the soil become wet 
or soggy — just nicely moist. 
ASTERS 
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 Ions, 
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. $2, yioz. 
$3.50, oz. $7. 
QUEEN OF THE MAREXT. 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 in the following separate colors: Pure Wliite, Pink, 
Crimson, Blue, and All Colors Mixed. Each, pkt. 5 cts., 
KOZ. 30 cts., 140Z. 60 cts., 02. $1. 
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-doubJe 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, wir>' 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, Moz. $2.50. oz. $5. 
SCHELL*S NOBLE ASTER. In two distinct colors. 
Noble, because the plants are so vigorous 
and stand up so straight that they cannot 
but be admired for their firm, upright 
growth. The strong, stiff flower-stems are 
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 are 
early but not so early as the Earliest White. 
White, Light Pink, and Mixed. Each, 
pkt. 10 cts., Koz. $1.25, 3^oz. $2. oz. $4. 
SECOND-EARLY ASTERS 
NEW PINK ASTER, "PINK EN- 
CHANTRESS." This truly is a magnifi- 
cent, full-double pink Aster. Tlie flowers 
grow twice the size of the illustration. It is 
a soft delicate pink, upright in habit of 
growth, with large , broad leaves , stems 
long, strong and graceful. It blooms be- 
tween the earliest and the late varieties, 
being midseason. The general effect of the 
large, delicately colored flowers is indescrib- 
ably soft and pleasing. Sold in packet only 
this year, 20 eta. 
SCHELL*S GRANDEST ASTER. With- 
out 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 reflexed i)eta!s, crossing, curling 
over each other in their individual habit, 
making the finished flowers the grandest 
of all 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 varieties, I have two colors only of 
this Aster. Lavender-Pink and Pure 
White. Each, pkt. 10 cts., Koz. $2, Koz. 
I3.S0, oz. $6.so. 
DAYBREAK. This beautiful Aster is one of those rare gema 
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 
sca-shell pink. The plant flowers very early, and is a continu- 
ous, free bloomer, a compact, strong grower, and in all respects 
a desirable addition. Pink. Pkt. 5 cts., Koz. $1.25. V^oz, 
$2.2$, oz. $4.50. 
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. The plant is an early free 
bloomer, like its associate. White. Pkt. 5 cts., Xoz. $1.25. 
;^oz. $2.2S. oz. 14.50. 
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 chr^'san- 
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, one plant often covering a space 
2M feet square. It is unexcelled for cutting, and is by far the 
most satisfactory late Aster grown. The time of blooming can, 
of course, be regulated to some extent by sowing the seed in 
the house in March or .April. Grow separate colors for market- 
ing. Snowy White, Pink, Crimson, Purple, Lavender, and 
All Colors Mixed. Each. pkt. 5 cts.. '^oz. 35 cts.. Moz.65cts., 
oz. Sr. 25. 
Beautiful "Pink Enchantress" Aster 
The flowers are always fiill-double, stems long, strong and graceful 
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