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O F all annuals grown, Asters are the greatest favorites, of easy culture, succeeding with every one and growing in any good soil, responding to a rich, 
loamy one, with a mulching of rotted manure around the plants to insure sufficient moisture and protect the roots which are produced near the 
surface from the hot sun. For garden beds no other annual can equal Asters In perfection of flowers and rich and varied colors. The new sorts we 
offer this year are great advances. 
California Giant Branching Comet Asters. — 
SBE COLORED ELATE OPPOSITE. 
Comet Asters, a comparatively new type, are ginning enthusiastic admiration from all who see them. They are so large, so beautiful, so unique in their 
charming grace, so free from the formal stiffness heretofore characteristic of Asters, it would seem the highest possible perfection has been attained. The 
flowers of immense size, averaging 4 to 5 inches across, and even 6 Inches across, are very double, composed of long, wavy, twisted petals, arranged into 
loose yet dense half-globes, resembling Japanese Chrysanthemums, and being borne on stems, 1(5 to 24 inches long, gives them an added value when cut for 
va«<*s. The plants of these new California Giant Branching Comet Asters (see cut) are of strong, healthy and luxuriant growth, attaining a height of 
about 2 feet, branching out freely into well-formed bushes, each plant bearing from 50 to 75 magnificent flowers. 
VARIETIES AND PRICES OP CALIFORNIA GIANT BRANCHING COMET ASTERS: 
White Striped Pink . Pkt. 15c. I Clear Carmine .Pit. 15c. 
Rosy Pink . 15c. I Snow White (see colored plate opposite) . 15c. 
The collection of California Giant Branching Comet Asters, one pkt. each of the above four sorts, 50c. 
California Giant 
“ Silver Tipped ” 
Asters. 
Set Colored Plate opposite. 
A now section of great beauty. The 
plants, about 18 inches high, grow 
rugged and branching, and bear in 
abundance very large elegantly form¬ 
ed double flowers about 3V6 inches 
across, composed of regular, slightly 
recurved broad petals. The tip of each 
petal being silvery white, brings out 
in exquisite relief the warm rose-pink 
or brilliant blue in the depths of the 
flower. 
Silver Tipped Rose Pink. .Pit. 15c. 
Silver Tipped Blue (see colored 
plate opposite) . 15c. 
One pkt. each of the above two 
Silver Tipped Asters for 25c. 
^ew Dwarf Mignon 
Asters. 
See Colored Plate opposite. 
The Mignon Asters are a compara¬ 
tively new class which have been 
worked up from the Victorias, on 
which they are a great improvement, 
which is saying much, for the Victorias 
have long been considered one of the 
best types grown. In this New Dwarf 
Mignon Aster we offer one of the beet 
dwarf Asters grown, differing from the 
tall Mignons only in habit. The plants 
grow about 10 inches high, branching 
out just above the soil, the long stalks 
carrying gracefully-poised large semi- 
globular flowers of perfect shape. 
Dwarf Mignon, crimson (see color- 
ed plate opposite) . Pkt. 20c. 
Dwarf Mignon, white.20c. 
One pkt. each of the above two 
Dwarf Mignon Asters, 35c. 
Tom Thumb Comet Aster—White. 
SEE COLORED PLATE OPPOSITE . 
i bis beautiful new Aster is the result of a cross between the Giant Comet and the Dwurf Chrysanthemum-flowered Asters. From the former It has Inherited 
t;ne elegant form and size and doubleness of its pure white flowers, measuring 4 inches across, while from the latter it gets its dwarf, compact habit of growth, 
which does not exceed 8 inches in height, thus making it especially valuable as a pot plant, as well as for garden decoration. One particularly good point 
about, thiH Aster is its earliness—the flowers open early in July, even before the “Queen of the Market”; it is, therefore, the earliest of all large-flowering 
white Asters. Price per packet, 25c. 
Improved “Japanese Tassel ” 
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SEE COEOREIJ PLATE OPPOSITE. 
This new and beautiful type of Aster Is strikingly distinct and continues long 
In flower. The flowers arc of Immense sire, measuring 5 to 6 inches across, with 
long petals curiously waved and curled, giving them the appearance of the most 
disheveled Japanese Chrysanthemum. The plants ure vigorous and free flower¬ 
ing. growing about 15 inches high. The colors are flesh pink, white, rose, crim¬ 
son, lavender and violet, which we offer in mixed colors . Pkt. 15c. 
Stemmed Upright White Aster. 
A tall variety (30 inches high),carrying 20 to 25 very large and very double 
pure white flowers on the top of the plant. The stems are stiff and strong, and 
from 20 to 24 Inches long, and, in consequence, of exceptional value for cutting. 
As the plants grow in small circumference they may be planted 16 inches apart, 
-rendering them an ideal florists’ flower Lor cutting. Pkt. 15c. 
—New “ Daybreak ” Aster.— 
A most beautiful bushy, branching Aster, growing about 2 feet high, with 
large double flowers composed of incurved petals, almoRt as regularly placed as 
in a Dahlia. The coloring is an exquisite tint of rosy shell-pink, the flowers are 
borne upright on stiff long steins, and the plants in bloom are charming beyond 
description .. pkt. 20c. 
—New German Asters.— 
Boltze’s Min iature Dwarf Bouquet Aster, scarlet. Extremely brilliant 
color of this free-flowering dwarf class. Pkt. 20c. 
Queen of the Market Aster, deep scarlet. Magnificent color of this earliest- 
flowering Aster . . 20c. 
Triumph Aster, deep violet. Welcome addition to this finest of all dwarf 
classes. The flowers are of true pasony form, very double and of a satiny deep 
violet . 25c. 
Dwarf Chrysanthemum Perfection Aster, pure white. Improved dwarf 
Chrysanthemum Aster; flowers very large, extremely double and of faultless 
form . 25 c. 
Dwarf Queen Aster, vermilion. Brilliant and unique coloring, of great 
value for pot culture . 20c. 
