GLORIOUS ASTERS 
WILT-RESISTANT 
As each year speeds by, our plant specialists are 
presenting to us new or improved and intriguing 
types in many lines; improved forms, improved 
colors and improved plants. We are delighted to be 
able to offer to our flower-friends these fine Asters 
in wilt-resistant varieties. Each one attractive and 
different and the best of its class. None better than 
Parleys. 
Super Giants 
SUPER GIANTS 
The largest most fully double Asters known. 21/2 
ft. plants bear 6-8 long stems with flowers 6" 
across. 
LOS ANGELES (Award of merit) is a lovely delicate 
shell-pink, blending to a creamy pink center. The 
handsome, robust plant produces large graceful 
feathery-petaled flowers upon fine upright stems. 
Showy in the garden and fine for cutting. 
EL MONTE. Special 1936 Council selection. Large 
deep glowing crimson, a companion, but earlier 
flowering variety, to Los Angeles. Those who 
take pride in growing the finest types of flowers 
must have these Super-Giant varieties. 
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Mammoth Peony—Flowered 
MAMMOTH PEONY—FLOWERED 
Especially fine for florists, huge, compact flowers, 
long stems, keep well. 
Aviator. (New) rich crimson. 
Marines, rich navy blue. 
Rosebud, clear deep rose. 
Silvery Rose. (All American Award) rich rose 
tipped silver. 
Swansdown, glistening white. 
Mixed. Fine blend of above varieties. 
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Aster, Rose Marie 
THREE EARLY GIANTS 
ROSE MARIE (Wilt Resistant). (1940 Medal Winner.) 
Wonderful addition to the Early Giant class. The 
IV 2 ' plants branch Ipv/ and produce 6-8 huge 4-5 
inch full flov/ers with daintily plumed and inter¬ 
twined petals of a lively shade of popular rose. 
A grand Aster. Do not miss it. Regular pkt. 5c,* 
Novelty pkt. 2Sc. 
LIGHT BLUE. 3 ft. (1939 Silver Medal Winner.) The 
extra large, lacy, curled, 5" flowers bloom four 
weeks earlier than Calif. Giants. Regular pkt. 
Sc; Jumbo pkt. 10c. 
PEACH BLOSSOM. Companion to "Light Blue." 
New, early, dv/arf-growing strain of Giants. A 
glorious Aster. Regular pkt. 5c; Jumbo pkt. 10c. 
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GIANT COMET OR CREGO 
3 ft. Of all Asters, this is considered the most 
beautiful and most useful. The long-stemmed flow¬ 
ers are great fluffy balls, 5 to 8 inches across, 
rivaling the finest Chrysanthemums, and lasting 
better than others when cut. You make no mistake 
in getting this Aster. Colors: Crimson, Deep Rose, 
Lavender Pink, Royal Purple, Shell Pink, White; 
separate or m.ixed. 
AMERICAN BRANCHING 
21 / 2 '. Robust large double flowers of fine form. 
Blooms in early September. 
Ball's Deep Rose, rich rose. 
Crimson Giant, bright crimson. 
Peerless Pink, lovely new shade of shell pink. 
Peerless White, splendid pure white. 
Peerless Yellow, creamy yellow. 
Sensation, glorious scarlet. 
Giant Victoria, splendid mixture of many colors. 
American Branching 
Regular pkt. 5c; Jumbo pkt. 10c unless specially priced. 
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