F. LAGOMARSINO & SONS, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 
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FLORAL NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES 
ASTER—WILT RESISTANT GIANT COMET, 
SALMON QUEEN 
A new, clear, pure salmon pink, blending to a 
rich golden salmon at the center. The flowers 
large and well formed, are of the feathery comet 
type, on long stemmed early flowering upright wilt 
resistant plants. Pkt. 25c. 
ASTER—WILT RESISTANT AURORA 
GOLDEN SHEAF (New) 
Deepest yellow Aster and is wilt resistant. The 
Flowers are fully double with an attractive crest¬ 
like center of quilled yellow petals. Pkt. 25c; 
Ys oz. 75c. 
ASTER—SUPER GIANT LOS ANGELES 
(Award of Merit, All American Selections 1934) 
This is the largest and most fully double Aster 
known. The flowers are from 6 to 8 inches across, 
full petaled and artistically graceful in the feathery 
effect of the interlacing ostrich feather type petals. 
The color is a lovely soft shell pink, blending to a 
creamy pink at the center. The plants reach a 
height of 2y 2 to 3 feet with six to eight long, non¬ 
lateral stems per plant. Pkt 25c. 
WILT-RESISTANT 
ASTERS 
The so-called wilt disease of Asters is caused 
by a specific parasitic fungus, which may attack 
the plant at any stage in its growth from the 
seedling to the seed-producing age. When once 
introduced into the soil, it persists indefinitely 
and makes the land “aster sick,” causing plants 
to die off at some stage of their growth. 
A wilt resistant strain of Asters is one which 
will withstand the attacks of the fungus and de¬ 
velop into strong, healthy plants, while the non- 
resistant strains will succumb. 
It is not known just what the difference in 
composition is in the resistant strain—whether 
it be a different physio-chemical set-up, an in¬ 
creased acidity of the cell sap, the presence of 
toxic substances in the pigment compounds, or 
what it may be. We wish to call your attention 
to the fact that these Asters should be sold as 
wilt resistant, and not as disease resistant. There 
seems to be an erroneous impression prevalent 
that the resistance refers to Aster Yellows and 
other Aster diseases, besides the fusarium wilt. 
Unfortunately, this is not the case. So far there 
is no known method of combatting the Yellows 
disease except by growing the plants in an en¬ 
closed space, thereby keeping the leaf hoppers, 
which carry the Yellows virus, from reaching the 
plants. 
ASTER-WILT RESISTANT AURORA GOLDEN SHEAF 
ASTER—SUPER GIANT LOS ANGELES 
ASTER—WILT RESISTANT IMPROVED 
TALL OSTRICH FEATHERED 
There are the finest of the Comet or Ostrich 
Feathered class, having long stems and bearing 
full fluffy flowers. The plants grow about 2 l /i feet 
and are of branching and robust habit. These 
qualities coupled with their wilt resistant nature 
make exceptionally desired plants for the garden. 
Mixed, all colors. Pkt. 15c; oz- 40c. 
