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Flower Seeds 
Vick’s Garden and Floral Guide 
VicK’s Lavender Gem 
The color of this variety is the most beautiful shade 
of lavender ever seen in the Aster. When first 
opened the flower is an exquisite lavender, deepening 
with age. The flower is always full double, showing 
no tendancy to produce single or semi-double blooms. 
The feathery effect of the Ostrich-feathered type, to 
which it belongs, is enhanced by the fact that it 
bears a large proportion of long, partly tubular florets, 
that are irregularly cut and slashed, so that the flower 
looks like a ragged Chrysanthemum. The plant is 
erect and of medium height, branching close to the 
ground. The flowers are borne in profusion on long, 
slender, wiry stems. In season it comes between. 
Queen of the Earlies and Vick’s Daybreak, and is 
therefore classed with the early sorts. Visitors, including 
several seedsmen and florists, calling at our Despatch Farm the 
past summer were particularly pleased with its shape and color, 
pronouncing it the best they had ever seen. To the florist the 
value of Vick’s Lavender Gem can scarcely be over-estimated. 
Packet 20 cents. 
VICK’S CARDINAL 
Photograph of I'lowers onc- 
iialf natural size. 
The Best Bedding Aster Ever Introduced 
(Novelty.) It is almost an impossibility to describe the coloring of this Aster, which is 
entirely distinct from any other Aster on the market today ; in fact it possesses a striking 
color of its own. Cardinal is the nearest we can come to it. This new variety is particu¬ 
larly adapted for bedding, owing to its free blooming qualities, (see photograph,) and brilliant 
coloring. When massed in a bed by itself, its deep vivid cardinal color 
is as striking as the brilliant scarlet Salvia. 
Vick’s Cardinal begins blooming the first to the middle of August, retaining its brilliant coloring and 
full, well-developed flowers until late in the fall. Is excellent for cutting, either for florists or amateurs. 
W ithout a doubt, it is the most brilliant and attractive Aster ever introduced. Packet 25 cents 
