James Vick's Sons, Seedsmen, Rochester, N. Y. 
Flower Seeds 45 
VICK’S 
MIKADO PINK 
“ROCHESTER” 
Not since we brought out Vick’s Violet King 
have we introduced an Aster of such pleasing 
color as we have in Vick’s Mikado Pink 
« Rochester.” 
The story of its new name is of more than 
passing interest. The people of Rochester, through 
the Chamber of Commerce, have recently chosen 
the Aster as the representative flower of this city. 
Members of the Chamber of Commerce were so 
pleased with the color, shape and size of Vick’s 
Mikado Pink that they selected it as the official 
Rochester flower, and requested that we rename 
this variety “ Rochester.” Therefore, in addition 
to its former name it now bears the honored name 
of this city. During the recent Industrial Exposi¬ 
tion, reproductions of this Aster appeared in count¬ 
less papers, programmes and private advertising 
matter; thousands of souvenir spoons, watch fobs 
and hat pins carrying a design of this Aster were 
sold by various concerns. This beautiful flower 
will also appear in the color schemes and figura¬ 
tive designs of the various decorations of the 
handsome new lake steamship, The Rochester. 
The design and coloring of the Rochester Aster 
is being used as an important feature of the mural 
decorations of the new Temple Theatre, which, 
by the richness of its appointments, in many respects, will surpass 
any other playhouse between New York and Chicago. 
The Premier of the Lavender Pink Asters 
Petals are narrow, very long, and gracefully refiexed. The outer 
petals show to their full extent, while gradually toward the center 
they bend and curl across each other in such magnificent disorder 
as to make the fluffiest Aster we have ever seen. In color it is a 
most exquisite shade of lavender-pink, being a happy medium be¬ 
tween the color of Vick’s Branching Pink and Semple’s Pink. For 
a mid-season pink this Aster is without a rival. The plants are 
unusually vigorous and it is not uncommon to find one with a 
dozen long, strong, graceful stems, each crowned with flowers from 
four and a half to six inches in diameter. Packet, 25 cents ; two 
VICK’S MIKADO PINK “ROCHESTER” 
Empress Frederick 
This superb variety grows from fifteen to eighteen inches high, bearing pure 
white flowers, from four to five inches across, of a perfect comet shape t he 
plant is very sturdy and vigorous in growth, making it an ideal sort for pot 
culture. Packet, 15 cents; two for 25 cents. 
Giant Comet 
A superb class, differing from others in its long, wavy, twisted florets, which 
are formed into a head three and one-half to four and one-half inches across. 
One of the most perfect of Asters, and should be included in every collection. 
Separate colors, white, rose, crimson, light yellow, lilac and white, dark 
violet, rose and white, light blue, light blue and white, azure blue and 
white, white passing to light blue; the Bride, white passing to rose; 
any three for 25 cents ; each. 10 
Mixed colors. 10 
for 40 cents. 
Vick’s Comet Asters 
Vick’s Mikado 
The flowers of this beautiful white Aster are immense, measuring four and 
a half to five inches in diameter, with curled and twisted petals, resembling 
huge chrysanthemums, and are borne on long, stiff stems. The blooming sea¬ 
son is most opportune, coming between the Extra Karlies and the late Branch¬ 
ing sorts, thus enabling the Aster grower to have a fine display from mid¬ 
summer till heavy frosts. Plants grow from eighteen inches to two feet high. 
Three colors—White, Rose, Pink “ Rochester,” each 25 cents. 
The two Mikados—White and Rose, for 40 cents. 
Three Mikados—Pink “ Rochester,” White, and Rose for 65 cents. 
Hohenzollern 
Vick’s Early Snowdrift 
Is Certainly the Earliest Aster in Cultivation 
Being a few clays in advance of Queen of the Earlies. The 
leaves are narrow and sparse, and the branches spring from close 
to the ground. The entire energy of the plant seems given to the 
production of twelve to twenty long, slender, upright stems, crowned 
with immense feathery flowers. The long, recurved petals give the 
flowers an exceedingly graceful effect, heightened in many cases 
by the ragged, irregular character of the petals in the center of the 
flower. The type now is well established, the flowers all coming 
perfectly double. Packet, 20 cents ; two for 35 cents 
An Aster of the large-flowering, branching Comet type. Flowers four to 
six inches across. Two colors—rose and white. Packet, 20 cents ; two 
for 35 cents. 
Am glad to say that seeds and plants arrived promptly and in good con¬ 
dition. Again thanking you /or your courtesy, lam 
Smith/eld, IV. Va. Very truly, B. R. LKU'IS . 
