MICHELL’S HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS 
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New Dwarf Border Aster 
NEW DWARF BORDER ASTERS FOR 1936 
The following is a selected list of the new hybrids for this 
season, all are quite distinct and pretty. You will make no mis¬ 
take in making a planting of these this season. 
Constance. A really pure shell-pink, a delightful color; of very 
graceful habit; October. 9 inches. 
Diana. Large, delicate, soft pink, semi-double flowers with 
pretty feathery green foliage; September. 9 inches. 
Hebe. A compact variety with small deep pink flowers; an ideal 
rock plant, September. 10 inches. 
Lavanda. Lavender-blue flowers; very free and early, com¬ 
mencing to bloom early in September. 6 inches. 
Lilac Time. Lovely soft lilac flowers; very free and of bushy 
habit. September-October. 12 inches. 
Niobe. The best white variety; of dwarf compact habit with 
pure white flowers. September. 6 inches. 
Price: any of the new set, 50c. each; $5.00 per dozen. 
OUTSTANDING NEW HARDY ASTERS 
Aurora. Large semi-double flowers of a beautiful clear shell- 
pink with a yellow center; charming feathery foliage of a 
bushy habit. September. 18 inches. 
Blue Bouquet. Large clear violet-blue flowers with yellow eye, 
very charming. October. 18 inches. 
Burbank’s Charming. Entirely distinct from any other 
Aster in habit of growth and foliage. The plants grow 5 feet 
high and are completely covered with masses of feathery 
sprays of a delicate rosy-white color. October to November. 
Cordifolius, Silver Spray. Charming novelty with long arch¬ 
ing sprays, smothered with masses of pale silver lace flowers. 
September and October. 4 to 5 feet. 
Dorothy Vokes. Of very distinct bushy habit, covered with 
clear pink flowers. October. 15 inches. 
Hybridus Luteus. Masses of bright clear yellow, star shaped 
flowers. A border acquisition of yellow from July until frost. 
Grows compact and bushy, 2 feet high. Free flowering and 
keeps well when cut. 
Mt. Everest. A wonderful white Aster, by far the finest and 
best white ever introduced. Very tall, well shaped pyramids 
of flowers right down to the ground. The flowers are large, 
pure white with a very small yellow eye and unlike other 
white Asters the old flowers do not discolor the mass. 
Red Rover. Deep rosy-red flowers with golden center; buds 
bright red giving us our first red Fall flowering Aster. Com¬ 
pact habit and very free flowering. 3 to 4 feet, September to 
frost. A real novelty which should be in every garden. 
Skylands Queen. Large light blue flowers produced abun¬ 
dantly on 4 foot plants in late August and early September. 
Dark green, disease resistant foliage. The best Fall Aster 
and a happy grower. 
50c. each; $5.00 per dozen. 
DWARF BORDER ASTERS 
We take pleasure in introducing a collection of dwarf Hy¬ 
brid Asters which we feel will fill a long felt want in providing a 
race of dwarf, compact, free flowering plants, blooming when 
there is a scarcity of low growing flowering plants. They rarely 
exceed one foot in height and during the blooming period in 
September they are completely covered with blossoms for a 
considerable time. They are exceptionally fine for edging or 
grouping in front of borders, they are also charming for the 
rock garden. 
Countess of Dudley. Charming clear pink flowers with yellow 
eye; bushy and free flowering. Late September. 9 inches. 
Lady Henry Maddocks. Clear pale pink flowers; very free 
flowering and of dwarf compact growth. September. 12 inches. 
Marjorie. A charming plant of compact growth, bearing large 
flowers of a bright rose-pink. Mid-September. 12 inches. 
Nancy. Of dwarf bushy habit and very free flowering, the 
plants being covered with pale flesh-pink flowers towards the 
end of September. 12 inches. 
Ronald. Forms a dwarf bush covered with flowers of a pleasing 
bright shade of lilac-pink with rose-pink buds, very showy. 
Mid-September. 12 inches. 
Snowsprite {Snow Fairy). A very dwarf, early Fall-flowering 
variety forming compact clumps about one foot high; these 
are smothered with large, semi-double white flowers. A 
splendid novelty which deserves a place in every garden. 
Early September. 
Victor. The dwarfest of all and very pretty. The flowers are 
of good size and of a beautiful clear, pale lavender-blue; a 
charming rock plant. Early September. 12 inches. 
35c. each; $3.50 per doz.; per 100, $25.00. 
HARDY ASTERS (Michaelmas Daisies) 
Anita Ballard. Light Lobelia blue, shading to lighter center. 
Early and free. 3 feet. 
Autumn Beauty. An exquisite shade of light blue; very large 
flowers, commencing to bloom in the late Summer. 4 feet. 
Barrs Pink. A strong vigorous grower, forming shapely plants 
from four to five feet high with beautiful pink flowers. 
Blue Gem. One of the most decorative free-flowering rich blue 
varieties, probably the nearest approach to a true blue. 3 feet. 
Glory of Colwall. Large, nearly double, Ageratum-blue flow r ers; 
remarkably free flowering. 2J^ feet. 
M iss Eisele. Very large flowers of a beautiful lavender blue; 
one of the best. 3 feet. 
Novae Angliae. Bright violet-purple flowers in abundance during 
the early Autumn. 4 feet. 
Novi Belgii Climax. One of the best and showiest, with large 
pyramidal spikes of lavender-blue flowers. 5 feet. 
Pink Progressive. Very bushy plants with masses of small pink 
flowers. The best low growing pink. 2J^ feet. 
Queen Mary. The best of the Novi Belgii type, graceful flowers, 
2 l /2 inches in diameter, arranged loosely in branching panicles 
of a particularly pleasing blue, tinted lavender. 3)^ feet high. 
Roseum Superbum. This is one of the best hardy Asters we 
have ever seen. The color is almost red; profuse bloomer. 
Sam Banham. Very large and graceful pure white flowers. 
One of the earliest to bloom. 3 feet. 
St. Egwin. Densely branched, producing beautiful pink flowers; 
September. 3 feet. 
Tataricus. Large flowers of bluish violet, very late. 6 feet. 
Price, 25c. each; $2.50 per doz.; per 100, $15.00. 
Our long-spurred Columbines are unsurpassed for their light and airy grace in the Spring garden. See page 107 
Plants marked * are suitable for the rock garden (wn) 
