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WILSON S. BROWER COMPANY, Inc., CATALOGUE OF SEEDS 
ANNUAL FLOWER SEEDS 
Novelties and 
Specialties 
for 1935 
ASTER 
Wilt Resistant Varieties of Asters 
Aster growers have been troubled with pests 
of recent years. This family has been widely 
attacked by the Fusarium Wilt, which condi¬ 
tion has been overcome in growing the Wilt 
Resistant Strains which, although grown in 
infected soil, proved immune from the disease. 
Aster Yellows is also an enemy. This has 
been found to be transferred to the plants by 
tiny insects called leaf hoppers. The only 
means to overcome this is to grow the plants 
under a cheesecloth cover. 
Aster Wilt Resistant Strains. 
(Award of Merit, All American Selec¬ 
tions 1933.) We wish to take this op¬ 
portunity of reminding our customers 
that it is only thru the use of wilt re¬ 
sistant or “vaccinated” aster seed that 
this popular annual will be saved for 
our gardens. The soil in gardens all 
over the world is so highly infested 
with the wilt fungus by now that it is 
almost impossible to raise any var¬ 
ieties which have not been developed 
as resistant strains. The difference in 
price is negligible when you consider 
the vast difference in results obtained. 
petals are long and deeply fringed 
or laciriated. Row after row of these 
long, fringed petals overlap each other 
in a rather irregular fashion and build 
up a bloom with the shaggy ap¬ 
pearance of some Chrysanthemums. 
These blooms are of great beauty, 
sharply contrasting with the rather 
formal appearance of varieties such as 
Orange King, etc. 
The color is a deep orange, shading 
to sligthly lighter orange in the cen¬ 
ter of the bloom, giving the flower a 
delightful two-tone effect. Well grown, 
Orange Shaggy produces long stems 
and forms plants about 18 inches high .25 
Calendula Chrysantha. (Gold Medal, 
All American Selections 1934.) Voted 
the most popular flower entered in the 
All American trials this year, Chry¬ 
santha speaks for itself. The flowers 
are large with loosely arranged wide 
petals, giving the rounded effect of a 
Chrysanthemum. The color is a clear 
buttercup yellow, distinct from any 
other Calendula. Chrysantha is al¬ 
ready one of our best sellers _ .20 
COSMOS 
CREGO 
GIANT BRANCHING 
White 
Pink 
Deep Rose 
Crimson 
Purple 
Azure Blue 
White 
Shell Pink 
Deep Rose 
Crimson 
Azure Blue 
Purple 
HEART OF FRANCE (Wilt Resistant 
Strain). The best pure red ever intro¬ 
duced. Heart of France opens red as 
the purest ruby and retains its beauty 
to the very end. The stems are long 
and strong and have few laterals. The 
branching plants bloom early in the 
season and open with the mid-season 
varieties ___ $0.15 
CALENDULA 
Orange Shaggy (Gold Medal Award 
by the all American Selection Comit- 
tee 1935) 
This variety is undoubtedly the great¬ 
est departure yet known from the 
original form of the Calendula. The 
Orange Flare (Gold Medal Award by the All 
American Selection Committee 1935.) 
Now at last we may grow the lovely 
orange colored Cosmos and be assured of 
having flowers before frost. In most parts 
of the country this brilliant hued flower 
is practically unknown because of its late 
flowering habit. Realizing its beauty, how¬ 
ever, we have bent our efforts toward pro¬ 
ducing an early flowering strain which may 
be enjoyed by all. We have accomplished 
this purpose with Orange Flare, a strain 
which is in full bloom less than five months 
from sowing. The color is the same vivid 
orange of the ordinary Klondyke, with at¬ 
tractive light green foliage. 
DAHLIA 
Wonderful dahlias may be grown from seed 
and they will bloom the first season, making 
as large plants and tubers as if grown from 
bulbs. They are seldom like the parent plant 
in type or color, all the fancy dahlias today 
are grown from seed. 
Exhibition Blend. Saved from a collec¬ 
tion of the newest and most selected 
