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pyramidal growth, one to two feet high. 
Single plants will often produce ten or twenty 
perfect flowers. 
Aster, Victoria, white, turning to azure blue . 15 
peach blossom. 15 
violet..15 
mixed, including all colors.10 
land and Scotland, where it is to be found in perfection. 
Does not bear well the 
extremes of heat and 
cold. The flowers all 
have various colored 
eyes; the light ones 
with dark ground colors 
are considered prefer¬ 
able. The best soil to 
grow them in is leaf 
mold and sand, enrich¬ 
ed with decomposed 
manure. The seed 
should be sown early 
in spring in pots, in 
hot-bed, and trans¬ 
planted one foot apart. 
Tender perennial. 
Auricula, Alpine, a 
native of the Auricula. 
Alpine regions of Switzerland, improved by 
. cultivation, and the most hardy variety . 
finest prize, collection of the best sorts, embrac¬ 
ing all choice known varieties; seifs, grey, 
white and green edged. .: 
Aster, Crown. 
Aster, Cocardeau, or Crown, mixed, a very hand¬ 
some variety, producing large flowers, the 
centers being pure white, surrounded with 
many bright colors; about two feet high.10 
•' Reid’s Improved Quilled, mixed,remarkable 
for the globular form of its singular flowers. 
The single petals consist of tubes or quills, 
and the outer courses are blossom petals,which 
are slightly reflexed. Plants are one and a 
half to two feet high, and there are a number 
of distinct colors mixed. . 10 
“ Goliath, Mont Rose, splendid variety , with 
flowers of charming f>each color. The blossoms 
are freely produced, of enormous size, and 
most perfect form. Plants of robust, branch¬ 
ing habit. 20 
'* Goliath, Mont Blanc, similar to the Mont 
Rose, but having enormous white flowers .. .20 
“ Goliath, Crimson, very brilliant and conspicu¬ 
ous. Its extremely large blossoms are valua¬ 
ble for florists. 25 
“ Porcupine, or Hedgehog, mixed, the dis¬ 
tinguishing feature of this variety is the quills 
or sharply pointed petals. The flowers are 
very curious in appearance, and quite showy. 
Plants grow about two feet high. A fine 
range of colors .10 
Giant Emperor, snow white, flowers very 
double, of enormous size, and good form. 
Good for bouquets; two feet high.10 
mixed Washington, a remarkably large va¬ 
riety, exceeding all the other varieties in size, 
frequently measuring five to six inches across 
the blossom; of robust growth, and most per¬ 
fect in form and color. The mixture includes 
a number of very delicate and beautiful colors. 
A valuable acquisition.20 
AURICULA—(Primula)* 
A favorite with florists, and much in demand in Eng- 
Balloon Vine. 
azalea. 
Spring flowering shrubs, universally admired for their 
beautiful flowers, which arc invariably produced in 
great profusion. The flowers are of all conceivable 
colors, and for brilliancy, are unsurpassed. Need hot¬ 
house culture. Plant in April, in cold frame; prick out 
the seedlings the year following, in beds, four inches 
apart to remain till they flower. The plants should be 
covered in the fall, with straw or mulch, as the late 
frosts sometimes destroy the young, early shoots. 
Azalea, indica, fnest mixed. Green-house ever¬ 
green shrubs; flowers very beautiful . 25 
pontica, finest varieties. Hardy, deciduous 
shrubs, producing flowers of surpassing 
beauty, and all conceivable colors .. 25 
BACHELOR’S III TTON. 
A perfectly hardy border plant, succeeding finely in 
any common garden soil, but the flowers are more bril¬ 
liant if grown in gravelly ground. Under cultivation, it 
is really a handsome flower, sporting into varieties of 
white, purple, pink, parti-colored, etc. Hardy annual; 
two to three feet high. 
Centaurea, cyanus, single mixed. 5 
