CONTINENTAL AND OTHER CHOICE FLOWER SEEDS. 
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P/EONY-FLOWERED PERFECTION ASTER (TRUFFAUT’S.) 
The finest and most generally cultivated variety. Height from 15 to 18 indies. The flowers are 
large and double, and the i)etals beautifully incurved. 
220 Twelve superb and distinct colours, separate 2s. 6d. 
221 Six „ ,, „ Is- 
222 Extra Choice Mixed per pkt. Is. Od. 
NEW DWARF BOUQUET ASTER (BOLTZE). 
This variety grows from 12 to 15 inches high, and produces an abundance of small florets, and is 
exceedingly attractive either in beds or pots. 
223 Six fine and distinct colours, separate Is 6d. 
224 Extra Choice Mixed per pkt. Is. Od 
NEW ROSE ASTER. 
This new and splendid variety is intermediate between the large-flowered Inibricaled and Perfection 
Picony-floivered. Being of a beautiful pyramidal habit, it rerpiires no tying ; the flowers are large and 
double, the outer petals finely imbricated. 
225 Eight ehoice and distinct colours, separate 2s. 6d. 
226 Four „ „ „ „ Is- 6'^- 
227 Extra Choice Mixed per pkt. Is. Od. 
VICTORIA ASTER. 
This is unquestionably the finest and most beautiful variety in cultivation, and for exhibition 
purposes unequalled. The flowers are perfectly double, imbricated, globular, and as large as the 
Oiaul Emperor Aster. Each plant on an average produces from ten to twenty flowers ; the habit is 
that of an elegant pyramid, 21 to 24 inches high. 
228 Twelve splendid and distinct colours, separate 2s. 6d. 
229 Six „ „ „ „ ■ Is- 
230 Extra Choice Mixed Is. Otf. 
SHAKESPEARE ASTER. 
An extremely pretty, dwarf, and distinct variety, especially adapted for pot culture and edgings. 
The plant forms neat compact bushes, 6 inches in height by 10 to 12 inches in diameter, and produces 
abundant, extra double, .and well-imbricated flowers. 
231 Assortment of six splendid colours Is, fid. 
232 Choice Mixed per pkt. Is, Od. 
IMPROVED NEW P/EONY PERFECTION ASTER. 
The excellence of these Asters was fully borne out by their being awarded a prjiio at the Hanibiirgli 
E.xhibition. They are thus referred to in the Hardeners' Chronidc; — “Finer Asters than these wi) 
liavo never seen.” 
233 Assortment of eight distinct colours 2s. Od, 
234 „ four ,, ,, Is. Od. 
235 Extra Choice Mixed per pkt. Is. Od. 
NEW DWARF VICTORIA ASTER. 
T]iis variety greatly resenililes the preceding, but is dwarfer, its height not exceeding 10 inches. 
236 Six choice and distinct colours 
237 Extra Choice Mixed per pkt. Is. 6d. 
Soiv Aster seed in Aj)ril and Matjf or on a spent- hot-hed in drills 6 inches asunder; 
the jilants arc 1 inch hUjh^ pride out into a cold frame., or under hand-glasses, 3 or 4 ■inches apart, from 
whence thcij can be planted out v 'hen 4 indies high ; select shoiccrg weather for pilunting out, when tfhe 
ground is in good working order ; 2 dant in rows 1 foot a^nu't each wag. To grow Astci'S to 
a rich soil is indis 2 ^cnsablc, and during drg weather Ihcg slioidd l\c v'utep'd,^ a%\d a tojnxlrcssinei^ of v:cU- 
'rotted manure apijdicd carlg in August. 
