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N.OVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES 
THE LATEST NOVELTIES IN ASTERS 
ASTER, VICK’S EARLY SNOWDRIFT 
ASTER, DAYBREAK 
This beautiful Aster, which we introduced to 
the public, has proved itself worthy of the wide 
and very flattering reception it lias met with every¬ 
where. It is one of those rare gems that has come 
to stay ; no private garden is complete without it, 
and for florist’s use it is simply unsurpassed. The 
flowers are round as a ball, very large and full, on 
long stems ; the color a charming sea-shell pink. 
Packet, 10 cents. 
ASTER, PURITY 
'I bis new Aster is the handmaid to our Pay- 
break, being identical with it in form and habit, 
but the blooms are a pure white. A finer combina¬ 
tion of color cannot well be imagined than the 
massing together of these two beauties. Packet, 
15 cents. 
ASTER “GLORIA ” 
This is an extremely pretty novelty in Dwarf 
Asters. The plants attain a height of twelve to 
fifteen inches, are very branching and free-flower¬ 
ing. The flowers measure two inches in diameter, 
and are semi-globular in form and perfectly double. 
In color they are quite unique, being of a pure 
white surrounded by a narrow deep scarlet margin, 
forming a striking contrast. Packet, 25 cents. 
ASTER, MIDSUMMER TRIUMPH 
DARK SCARLET 
Various early-flowering Asters have been intro¬ 
duced, but notone has combined perfection in form 
with earlincss of bloom. This variety, however, 
combines both these features. Plants small ana 
bushy. Flowers deep scarlet-red, of perfect in¬ 
curved shape. Blooms as early as the 25th of June. 
A gem for amateurs, a bonanza for florists. 
Packet, 25 cents. 
Two New Ostrich - Feathered Asters 
VICK’S EARLY SNOWDRIFT 
In Vick’s Early Ostrich-feathered Aster Snow¬ 
drift we offer to our customers the most valuable 
addition to the list of Asters that has been made 
since our introduction of Vick's Branching Aster 
in 1893. It is seldom that any plant combines 
extreme earliness and high quality; but this is 
positively the earliest Aster in cultivation, while 
the flower is not surpassed in size or beauty by any 
of the later varieties. The entire energy of the 
plant seems given to the production of twelve to 
twenty long, slender, upright stems, crowned with 
immense feathery flowers. Packet, 25 cents. 
VICK’S LAVENDER GEM 
This is the result of several years effort to pro¬ 
duce, in an early Aster, one of the delicate colors 
that occur in the late Branching Asters. When 
first opened the flower is an exquisite shade of 
delicate lavender, deepening with age. It has 
been pronounced by many “ the most beautiful 
color ever seen in the Aster.” The flower is 
always full double, showing no tendency to pro¬ 
duce single or semi-double blooms. The feathery 
effect of the Ostrich-feathered type is further en¬ 
hanced 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. Packet, 25 cents. 
GOLD MEDAL COLLECTION 
OF ASTERS 
We have received from customers who grew our 
Gold Medal Collection of Asters last summer, so 
many letters extolling the good qualities of the 
varieties composing it, that we again offer it, con¬ 
fident that those who avail themselves of this 
opportunity will be included in the long list of 
admirers of the “ Gold Medal.” It is not a collec¬ 
tion of cheap, common varieties, hut rather one 
composed of the best and most beautiful kinds— 
early, midsummer, and late-flowering sorts— rich 
in color, and of eight different styles of habit and 
bloom. If you want an up-to-date Aster bed next 
summer, sow seed of the Gold Medal Collection. 
Illustrations of these eight varieties have been 
painted in water colors from the natural flowers, 
and are faithful copies. These have been repro¬ 
duced in the same style, and to every purchaser of 
a Gold Medal Collection will be sent free a hand¬ 
some colored plate of these flowers. The plate is 
10 by 15 inches, and when framed makes a hand¬ 
some wall piece. 
Vick's Branching.. 
Vick’s Daybreak.10 
Gloria.25 
Lady.15 
Vick's Lavender Gem . ... .... 2 
Vick’s Purity ... . .. 1 
Vick’s Snowdrift. 2 
Midsummer Triumph.2 
This Collection, including Colored Plate, $1.00. 
