FLOWER SEEDS FOR FLORISTS 
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BALL RESISTANT ASTER LIST (Continued) 
AMERICAN BRANCHING. A term gen¬ 
erally used to cover a large number 
of varieties of branching or spreading 
habitand mid-season to late-flowering. 
"Ball White Early. A resistant selection 
of our original Ball White. How¬ 
ever, in the resistant strain it has lost 
some of its fine original form. The 
stock we are offering is a good mid¬ 
season white with a fair to high 
degree of resistance. Sept. 5-10. 
White. We have an excellent resistant 
strain. Sept. 10-15. 
"Azure Blue. Clear mid-blue. Very at¬ 
tractive commercial color and highly 
resistant. Sept. 15-20. 
Blackish Blue. Quite dark; useful in 
limited quantities. Sept. 15-20. 
"Improved Semple Pink. A long-stemmed 
and vigorous growth selection from 
Mary Semple. Pleasing shell-pink. 
Sept. 5-10. 
AMERICAN COMETS. This term fittingly 
applies to the Crego, Ostrich Feather, 
or Astermums, for all produce the 
same twisted petal or fluffy effect. 
A highly attractive type with some 
choice colors, but not so well adap¬ 
ted to shipping, as the plainer or in¬ 
curved class. 
"Crego Azure Blue. Attractive light blue, 
medium size, excellent color. Sept. 
10-15. 
Crego Orchid. This is a very rich sub¬ 
dued rosy lavender—a true "Orchid" 
shade and original in asters. Long, 
tho not extra stiff stemmed, large-flowered and highly resistant. Sept. 5-10. 
"Ostrich Feather Peach Blossom. An attractive, fairly deep rose pink. Excellent for market. Sept. 10-15. 
Crego Shell Pink. Very fine bright shade. Sept. 10-15. 
Crego Deep Rose. Rich deep rose. Do not confuse this with Rose Pink. Sept. 1-5. 
"Crego Blue Flame. A rich fairly deep blue with extra large, fully double flowers on good stiff stems. Our trial 
of this the past season showed it highly resistant. Sept. 1. 
Comet Blush Pink. Color as named. Valuable for earliness and light color effect. Fairly long-stemmed under 
favorable conditions. Aug. 25-Sept. 1. 
Astermum Lavender. Fairly dark azure blue. Sept. 1-5. 
Comet Lavender Blue. Fine size and good cut flower shade. Highly resistant. Sept. 1-5. 
Astermum Rose Pink. Bright rose-pink of upright growth. Excellent market color. Aug. 25-Sept. 1. 
Crego White. Large, full and clear color. Sept. 5-10. 
Astermum White. Earlier but not so full or large as Crego White. Sept. 1-5. 
AMERICAN BEAUTY. A valuable class because of lateness and nice incurved form. 
"Azure Fairy. Very attractive, large mid-blue. A valuable market color but this and Beauty Shell Pink are some¬ 
times too late flowering in our latitude. Sept. 25-Oct. 1. 
Shell Pink. Semple pink color. Oct. 1-5. 
"Crimson. We have improved the size, vigor and earliness of our Beauty Crimson. This is a rich deep rosy crimson, 
large and long-stemmed. Sept. 15-20. 
"Carmine Rose. Well named, very bright color, nice size, long-stemmed. Excellent commercial color. Sept. 25-Oct. 1 . 
UPRIGHT BRANCHING. Distinctive because of its strongly upright instead of spreading habit. Not generally 
so long or stiff-stemmed as the Branching class, but there are several first class commercial colors in this group 
we feel should be more largely used. 
Rose Pink. Nice fairly deep rose. Sept. 5-10. 
"White. Fine size and clear color. Sept. 5-10. 
Peach Blossom. Light rose-lavender-pink; a very excellent market color. Sept. 5-10. 
PRICES on any of the above, including the four new Ball varieties. Each: Tr. Pkt. 50c; V\ oz. 65c; 1 oz. $2.00. 
Early flowering is necessarily at the cost of size and stems. [ 3 ] 
All our aster seed is grown for us under the ideal climatic conditions of California where the 
strong sun and absence of rain throughout the growing season insures perfectly matured seed. 
