Daniels Bros., Norwich , Spring, 1892. 
Daniels’ Superb Prize Asters. 
We are justly celebrated for our magnificent strains of English, French, and German Asters, 
which form an important branch of our Flower Seed businesb, and would mention that our seeds 
of these having been grown especially for our retail trade may be relied on as the very finest 
procurable. 
Cultivation of French and German Asters. 
When well grown nothing can exceed the chaste loveliness 
and exquisite colour-blendings of a nicely arranged bed of choice 
Asters, and certainly no plant can be more easily raised and 
grown to perfection. The principal types of form are represented 
in the Pseony-flowered, having noble blooms with long incurved 
petals ; the Victorias, with their beautifully imbricated and 
perfect flowers ; the tasseled, as shown in the Chrysanthemum- 
flowered ; and the quilled, or Globe-flowered. As a rule Asters 
should not be sown before the first week in April, and to ensure 
a succession of fine bloom another sowing should be made in 
about a fortnight; and a final sowing about the second week in 
May. These latter, although they will not probably produce 
such fine blooms as those sown earlier, will be found exceedingly 
useful for planting in any out-of-the-way place for furnishing a 
late supply of cut-flowers. Sow the seed in boxes or pans of 
light rich soil, covering very lightly, and after giving a gentle 
watering, place under glass whore the young plants, when they 
come up, can have full benefit of sun and air. As soon as 
large enough to handle, the earlier sown plants should bo pricked 
out in boxes or pans of good rich soil, and placed in a light and 
airy jposition under glass to strengthen. In about three weeks, 
if fairly attended to, these will be found to have made nice sturdy 
plants with good tufts of fibrous rooks, and which, if carefully 
transplanted to their blooming quarters, will grow on without a 
check. Asters will thrive and flower well in almost any good 
garden soil, but if really fine blooms be required for exhibition, 
&c., it is advisable to have the ground well broken up, and a good 
quantity of thoroughly decayed manure worked in. The healthy 
growth of the plants, and the development of fine blooms, are 
greatly assisted by occasional applications of weak liquid manure 
up to the time of the plants showing the flower, when it should 
be discontinued, and the buds of those intended for exhibition 
thinned out to three or four on a plant, generally removing the 
centre bud ; and neat stakes should be placed to the taller- 
growing varieties requiring support. 
Daniels’ Improved Paeony-flowered Perfection. 
These Asters are of the greatest perfection, producing noble flowers of the most perfect Paaony 
form, and in a great variety of beautiful and brilliant colours. A decided improvement on the old 
form of Pseony-flowered Aster usually sent out, and are invaluable for exhibition. Have been awarded 
numerous First Prizes during the past season. 
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Delicate rose 
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Light blue and white 
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Daniels’ Improved Victoria. 
A truly magnificent class, growing to the height of about eighteen inches, and producing an 
abundance of perfectly double and beautifully imbricated flowers, which frequently measure four 
and a half to five inches across. The plants are of a handsome pyramidal form, and when grown for 
exhibition should be planted eighteen inches apart. 
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Daniels’ Dwarf Perfection. 
A quite new and superb strain of beautiful varieties. The plants grow only about twelve or 
fifteen inches high, with stiff upright stems and branches, and form handsome circular bushes. 
The flowers are of immense size, perfectly double, imbricated, and of the most beautiful form. This 
will be found a grand strain for garden decoration, for bedding out, or for exhibition. 
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