Burgess’ Annual Flower Seeds for cut Flowers 
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Flowers are enjoyed by everyone and are so easily raised that any home can have an abundance of blos- 
soms during the entire year. We list with the annuals a few biennials and tender perennials which bloom and 
do their best the first year from seed and are usually treated as annuals. The seeds we offer are the products 
of years of careful selection, and no better strains are to be obtained at any price. ALL FLOWER SEEDS 
ARE DELIVERED POSTPAID AT PRICES GIVEN. 
Disease-lTreated Aster Seed 
Queen of the Market 
(Wilt-Resistant) 
The Earliest Aster 
Our early strain of Queen of the Market 
is a most valuable type for bedding as well 
as cutting, as they are entirely wilt-resistant, 
the first to come into bloom, and continue 
blooming until checked by fall frosts. Plants 
are 15 to 18 inches in height and branch 
freely near the ground, giving long stems. 
Very double flowers. White, Pink, Crimson, 
Light Blue, Dark Blue, Scarlet. Separate 
colors or mixed. {0c per packet; 6 pkts., 
40c; % oz., 35¢e5 % oz., 60c;. %% oz., $1.00. 





Giants of California Double Asters 
Giants of California 
Double Asters 
Giants of California are enormous flowers 
with long, attractively curled petals. of the 
Ostrich Feather type, rivaling giant Japanese 
Chrysanthemums, and grow up to 6 inches in 
diameter, on stems 1% to 2 feet long. The 
vigorous, freely branching plants grow 2 to 
3 feet in height, begin to bloom in mid- 
season and continue until frost. Their im- 
mense size and beauty, long sturdy stenis, 
and good lasting quality make them unsur- 
passed for cutting. Pkt., 15c¢; % oz., 50c; 
4 oz., 85c; % oz., $1.50. F 

Super Giant Los Angeles 
3 SUPER GIANT ASTERS | 
SUPER GIANT LOS ANGELES. The most fully double of all 
Asters and the largest Aster grown. Flowers 6 to 8 inches 
across, full petaled and artistically graceful in the feathery ef- 
fect of the interlacing ostrich feather type! petals. Lovely soft 
shell pink, blending to a creamy pink at the center. 2% to 3 
feet in height, with 6 to 8 long, non-lateral stems per plant. 





Queen of the Market 
Pkt., 5c; % oz., 40c. 
SUPER GIANT EL MONTE. The only really giant fiowered 
crimson Aster. Similar to Super Giant Los Angeles, except 
coior, which is a deep glowing crimson. Pkt., 15c; % oz., 40c. 
SUPER GIANT WHITE. 
largest flowered white Aster. 
Immense flowers and stems ; the 
Superb for florists, Pkt., 5c; 
Wilt-Resistant Late Branching 
A grand strain of American Asters, Plants form 
strong, branching bushes, 2 to 2% feet in height, 
bearing on long, strong stems, flowers which are very 
double and, under ordinary cultivation, average 5 
inches across. Seed in mixed colors only. A fine 
mixture, including Crimson, Searlet, Bright Rose, 
Flesh Pink, Sky Blue, Purple, White, ete. Pkt., 10c; 
1% oz., 35ce; %4 oz., 60C; 14 oz., $1.00. ; 
Giant Sunshine Asters 
Improved Anemone-Flowered 
A beautiful type of Aster, forming well-branched bushes carrying a pro- 
fusion of excellent long-stemmed flowers. Some of the flowers have twisted 
petals and some have quilled petals; all have a cushion center of tiny quills of 
a contrasting color which makes a flower look as if it were covered with snow 
flakes. The blue flowers are dotted with a paler blue and some in white, and 
‘the rose in a lighter shade of pink or white. Their delicate beauty is hard to 
describe. Excellent for garden display and particularly fine for cutting. We 
offer a fine mixture of colors, including the bright and delicate shades of blue, 
lilac, crimson, rose and white. Pkt., 15e; 1% oz., 70c. : 
Heart of France (Wilt Resistant) 
A wonderful pure red Aster. Nearly all others have shades of blue or too 
much yellow in the color pigments. Heart of France opens red as the purest 
ruby, deepens with age and retains its remarkable beauty to the very end. 
The petals appear strikingly changeable, showing now a glow and sheen quite 
unique, now a soft warm velvety texture. In any light, natural or artificial, 
Heart of France is startlingly beautiful and will command instant admiration. 
The flowers are large and full with never a trace of hollow center. Pkt., 150; 
¥% oz., 50c; %4 oz., 85c. 
Giant Ostrich Feather (Wilt-Resistant) 
Magnificent, feathery, full fluffy flowers of large size, on long stems. Fine 
mixture of colors. Pkt., 10c; % oz., 40c. 
GIANT PEONY-FLOWERED ASTERS 
Exceptionally fine double blooms measure 4 to 5 in. across; 15 to 20 in. stems. 
Choice mixture of all colors. Pkt., 10c; % oz., 50c; 14 0oz., 85c. ; 
% oz., 40c. 
, For those who want the finest Asters yet 
35c Specia developed, we recommend the above three 
varieties. Three packets, one of each, for 35c. 

SENSATION 
(Wilt-Resistant) 
This is the reddest of all 
Asters, the color being a 
dark rich garnet or ox-blood 
red, which glistens in the 
sunshine like a live coal. 
Grows 18 to 20 inches high, 
well branched, and covered 
with double flowers. The 
fiowers are perfect in form, 
average 314 inches across, 
and resemble Dahlias. 
Bloom from early August 
until frost. Pkt., 10c; % P 
0%.,.400%>'14-02;,) 20055 eee 


Burgess’Special — 3 
Aster Mixture — 
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Sunshine Aster 

Our own special mixture of — 
all the varieties of Aster de- 
scribed on this and the. next — 
page. Pkt., 20c. { we 


Burgess Seed & Plant Co. 
GALESBURG, MICHIGAN 


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