VEGETABLE AND FLOWER SEEDS , ETC . 
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ASTER. 
Th 0 Aster stands unrivaled for beauty, variety of habit, form and color, and 
the brilliancy of its perfectly double flowers makes it a great favorite, and no flower 
garden can be considered complete without it. The seed may be sown in the hot¬ 
bed, or seed-bed in the garden : can be easily transplanted. The tall varieties 
should be twelve inches apart, and the dwarfs six inches ; the former need a little 
support to prevent being blown down during a wind or rain storm. Give the Aster 
a deep, rich soil, and mulching with coarse manure is beneficial during hot, dry 
weather. Hardy annuals. 
ASTER PLANT. ASTER—P.3CONY-FLOWERED PERFECTION. 
Pkt. Ctfl. 
New Victoria, free flowering, large; habit pyramida ;" m 2 feet; mixed colors. 10 
New Victoria White, one of the finest white Asters grown.10 
Truffaut’s Paeony-Flowered Perfection, very large, beautiful flowers ; 
one of the best; height, 2 feet; mixed colors. (Illustration)..10 
Large Flowered Rose, a charming variety, about 2 feet high, with large 
flowers, beautifully imbricated and very double ; mixed colors.10 
Dwarf Chrysanthemum-flowered, flowers large and perfect ; very desir¬ 
able ; 1 foot high ; finest colors mixed.:. 10 
Imbrique Pompon, free-blooming, compact; height 18 inches; mixed colors. 10 
Cocardeau, or Crown, very beautiful variety, with magnificent white cen¬ 
ter ; 18 inches : mixed colors.10 
German, Quilled, flowers large, freely produced and of brilliant colors; 
height, eighteen inches. Mixed colors .10 
Paeony-flowered Globe, Flilaud Aster, flowers very large, early ; plant 
robust and branching ; does not require tying ; mixed colors.10 
Boltze’s Dwarf Bouquet, extremely dwarf. Mixed colors.10 
Washington, one of the finest extant; flowers very largeand fine; mixed colors 10 
ALONSOA. 
A showy class of plants, fine for mixed beds. Succeeds best if sown under 
glass and transplanted about the first of June. Properly a greenhouse plant, but 
blooms finely in open ground when treated as a tender annual. 
mixed Varieties ..5 
ASPERULA.; 
This hardy little animal produces numerous clusters of small, sweet-scented 
sky-blue flowers, which, though not brilliant, are quite effective when worked into 
small bouquets. 
Azurca setosa, very neat and pretty. 5 
