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<5ataio§ue of fl?e Joseph f-larris $<?<?d Qompapy, 
Our aim is to secure the best Flower Seeds that money will buy, and sell them 
at reasonable rates to our customers. 
There is now no duty on Flower Seeds, and we have given up all attempts at 
competing with the cheaper labor and longer experience of the German, French and 
English flower seed growers. Our Flower Seeds are imported direct from the best 
growers in Europe, and are fresh and of the choicest and highest quality. The best 
foreign grown flower seeds are exceedingly expensive, but they are well worth the 
money. No one who has sown only the cheap flower seeds generally sold can have 
any idea of the astonishing improvements that have been made in the size and color 
of nearly all of our flowers that are grown from seed. 
We think all who sowed our Flower Seeds last year must have been pleased with 
them. In our own grounds they made a gorgeous display, and were a constant 
source of delight. When so much pleasure can be obtained for so little labor and 
money, it seems a pity that choice annual Flower Seeds are not more extensively 
sown. With one or two exceptions, all the following kinds and varieties of Flower 
seeds can be sown in the open ground in the spring, and produce an abundance of 
beautiful flowers. 
^sters. 
Those who nave hitherto grown only the cheap, common Asters, should sow at 
least two or three packets each of all of the following kinds. Sow one packet of 
each in a box in the house, and the other packet out of doors as soon as we have 
steady, warm weather and the soil is in good worldng condition. Those sown in the 
nouse or hot-bed will commence flowering the latter part of July, and make a 
gorgeous display through August and September, while those sown out of doors will 
commence to flower in August and continue to flower till cut down by frost. 
Asters shouid have plenty of room, say fifteen inches apart. They transplant readily, and, as the seed is costly 
the plants grown out of doors should be carefully taken up and set out to fill vacancies, leaving the plants not 
less than a foot apart in the rows. 
We introduce several of the best new varieties that we tried last year. They were exquisitely beautiful We 
have not a poor Aster in our collection, and we are very certain that no seedsman has anything better, and verv 
few anything as good. Try them. Try them all. 
ASTERS, NEW TRIUMPH—A beautiful dwarf- 
variety. Flowers large, color brilliant scarlet. We counted 
47 flower:: on one sma plant last year, seventeen of them 
m full bloom at one time. Per packet, 20 cents; three 
packets., 50 cents. 
VICTORIA—(Fig. 2.)—Two feet high. A profuse 
bloomer; vigorous grower; large, beautiful flowers; 
mixed colors. Three packets, 30 cents ; packet, 12 cents. 
Retteridgc’s Quilled Aster-(Fig. 4.)-The newest 
and best form of quilled Aster. The plants continue to 
bloom later than any other variety. Three packets, 20 
cents; packet, 8 cents. 
NEW ROSE—(Fig. 5.)—Two feet high. Flowers large 
and double, resembling a rose; mixed colors. Three 
packets, 25 cents; packet, 10 cents. 
German Aster—Mixed colors. Three packets, 12 
cents; packet, 5 cents. 
WASHINGTON Eighteen inches high. New, splen¬ 
did, magnificent. The argest and most beautiful Aster 
yet introduced. Per packet, 20 cts.; three packets, 50 cts. 
All the Above Six Varieties, and the Follow¬ 
ing Three Splendid Varieties, Mixed — Three 
packets, 25 cents; packet, 10 cents. 
New Triumph Aster. 
