CONTINENTAL AND OTHER CHOICE FLOWER SEEDS. 
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P>CONY-FLOWERED PERFECTION ASTER (TRUFFAUTS). 
Tlie finest and most generally cultivated variety. Height from 15 to 18 inches. The flowers are 
Ifirge and double, and the petals beautifully incurved. 
217 Twelve superb and distinct colours, separate 2s 6d 
218 Six ,, >) ,, . ' " 1 « 7 
219 Extra Choice Mixed 
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. 
220 Six fine and distinct colours, separate ... Is 
221 Extra Choice Mixed ! '. ! per pkt. U Od! 
NEW ROSE ASTER. 
This new and splendid variety is intermediate between the large-flowcrcd Imbricated and Perfedion 
Fasony-flowered. Being of a beautiful pyramidal habit, it requires no tying ; the flowers are large and 
<louble, the outer petals finely imbricated. 
222 Eight choice and distinct colours, separate . . 
223 Four „ „ T 7i 
224 Extra Choice Mixed per pkt. Is. Od. 
VICTORIA ASTER. 
This is unquestionably the finest and most beautiful variety in cultivation, and for exhibition 
pmposes unequalled. The flowers are perfectly double, imbricated, globular, and as large as the 
Gtant 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. 
225 Twelve splendid and distinct colours, separate . 
226 Six „ „ ,, 
.227 Extra Choice Mixed pgr pkt" 
2s. 6d. 
Is. U. 
Is. Od. 
SHAKESPEARE ASTER. 
An extremely pretty, dwarf, and distinct variety, especially adapted for ^xjt culture and edgings. 
Ihe plant forms neat comiiact bushes, 6 inches in height by 10 to 12 inches in diameter, and produces 
abundant, extra double, and well-imbricated flowers. 
228 Assortment of six splendid colours Is 6d 
229 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 Prize at the Hamburgh 
Exhibition. They are thus referred to in the Gardener^ Chronicle : — “Finer Astere than these we 
have never seen.” 
230 Assortment of eight distinct colours 
231 ,, four ,, ,, 
232 Extra Choice Mixed 
l>er pkt. 
2s. Od. 
Is. Od. 
Is. Od. 
NEW DWARF VICTORIA ASTER. 
Uliis variety gi’eatly resembles the preceiling, but is dwarfer, its height not exceeding 10 inche.*?, 
233 Six choice and distinct colours Is. 6d. 
. 234 Extra Choice Mixed ' pgV pkt, 1.9. ol 
Sow Aster seed in April mid. May, in pans, or on a spent hot-bed in drills 6 inches asunder ; when 
the jd, ants are 1 inch high, prick out into a cold frame, or under hand-glasses, 3 or 4 inches apart, from 
whence they can he planted out lohcn 4 inches high; select showery weather for 2 >lanting out, when the 
ground is in good working order ; 'jilant in rows 1 foot apart each way. To grow Asters to perfection, 
a rich soil is indispensable, and during dry weather they should he watered, ami a iG 2 >-drcssing of well- 
rotted manure apiMed early in August. 
