JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
□ EO OF ASTERS. 
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Tho numerous forms of the Aster, anil the great variety of 
rich colors of Its perfectly double flowers, make It a leading 
favorite. For u late summer and fall display it lias no equal. 
No garden should be without a good variety of these beauti¬ 
ful flowers. They are very easily grown, succeeding admir¬ 
ably in all kinds of soil, producing a displav of richly-colored 
double blossoms of which any one can be proud. Do not 
fall to plant a good variety of these grand newel's. 
Truffaut's Peony-Flowered, mixed colors. A beautiful’ 
and favorite vuricty. 10 
'lew Rose, tinest mixture in all colors. Plants of this 
variety grow large aud strong, and bear from 50 to 100 
flue double flowers of large size and great beauty_ 10 
(Sullied Cerman, line mixed, petals beautifully quilled. 5 
Washington, mixed colors; flowers are enormous size 
and very double. 15 
Kfwarf Chrysanthemum Flowered, mixed colors; very 
fine large flowers . 10 
Jwarf Bouquet, mixed, very dwarf and pretty. lo 
mbrlque Pom pon, mixed, line, perfect mid double blos¬ 
soms. 5 
Olant Emperor, this usually throws up one straight 
stalk on which is borne ono flower of mammoth size; 
very fine, mixed. 10 
llfarlequln, a now dwarf strain of great lieauty, tho pet¬ 
als of the flowers being very irregularly colored, anil 
thesame plantoften shows a great variety of blotched 
and Streaked flowers. It is one of the latest to bloom. 
and is particularly valuable on that account_ 10 
"•earl. Mixed Colors, the plants are half dwarf, about 
one foot high, beautiful in form and growth, healthy 
and vigorous. The flowers are of the largest size, per- 
feetly double, and the most lovely rosette form, woilo 
the colors, rose and white, are of the most delicate 
and beautiful shades.. . 20 
iTelne dee Halles, a beautiful strain, which are so hardy 
and robust, that when sown in the open ground in May 
they bloom in July, three weeks sooner than any 
others. Very valuable. Mixed colors. 10 
Multiflora, a new strain growing one foot high, and 
producing flowers ill such profusion that tho plant is 
a solid pyramid of bloom; large double blossoms and 
extra lino colors; nixed . 
Mlgnon, a new white Aster of great beauty. Plants 
about fifteen inches high, very busliy anil prolific, 
flowers of good size, pure white reflex petals, and 
very double . 
Lemon Com. We tlnd the color hardly decided enough 
to be called yellow, yet it is the nearest approach to it 
yet seen among Asters, and is really a lovely soft yel¬ 
low tinge, in itself extremely beautiful, and unliko 
any other Asler. Flowers very large and double, and 
plant of n dwarf habit, compact and showing its ele¬ 
gant blossoms to groat advantage. 
Betteridge's Prize, mixed colors. Plants strong aud 
branching, flowers regularly quilled, with a single 
row of outer tlut petals, which are often a different 
color from tho center. A very beautiful Aster. 
Comet, a deep rose-colored variety of the now tribe in¬ 
troduced lust season, with very large and extremely 
double flowers which have twisted and quilled petals 
like Japanese Chrysanthemum. 
Triumph, scarlet changing to a lake crimson. This is 
undoubtedly the most beautiful and most perfect of 
all dwarf Asters, both in (lie habit of tho pluntsaiid in 
the form and beauty of the flowers. These average 
from two and one-half to three inches in diameter, 
and are of faultless Peony form, all petals being 
beautifully incurved, it blooms in great profusion, 
changing in color as it opens. 
Pyrmee, mixed colors. This is one of the most beautiful 
littlo gems wo liavo ever seen. The plant is very 
dwarf, ami forms a beautiful tuft of leaves close to 
the ground, surmounted by a pyramidal cluster of 
bright, perfect, double flowers. Tho .whole plunt in 
Itsoll is a charming bouquet. The great beauty of a 
border or Ih si of these plants of various colors is bet¬ 
ter Imagined than described. They are also gems for 
smtill pots, and thrive splendidly. Choicest seed of 
about ten line colors, mixed. 
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Special Offer,—For $1.00 we will send one packet each of these 
18 fine Asters. 
