9 ASIMINA TRILOBA—yt. Hardy Pawpaw. Small tree with 
ornamental foliage and dark red flowers, centered yellow. 
Fruits like short, thick bananas are filled with a sweet custard 
pulp, rich and aromatic. Most folks like it. Winter-safe to 
about Boston. Quite large seeds. 4 oz. 20c; 1 oz. 60c. 
2 THE ASPARAGUS FERNS 
Decorative and easy pot plants are the Asparagus Ferns, 
though not, of course, truly of the fern family. Culture, “jw. 
ASPARAGUS SPRENGERI—Many spreading sprays of fern- 
like foliage. Bright red berries, usually about Christmas time. 
Best effect when two or three plants are grown together in 
a large pot or hanging basket. Does well as a window plant. 
Sometimes called Emerald Feather. Pkt. 20c. 
ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS NANUS—Foliage finer than that 
of the last, bright green, dense, almost lacelike in effect. Plant 
upright, fronds almost horizontal. Pkt. 20c; 3 pkts. for 50c. 
Plants, each 50c; 3 for $1.40. 
ASPARAGUS SCANDENS—A climbing ornamental Aspara- 
gus, grown as a pot plant. Desirable trained as a low, slender 
vine, or the fine-foliaged strings of it may be cut for decora- 
tive use. Pkt. 20c. 
2 ASPARAGUS RACEMOSUS—k. South African vine-like 
species for a protected position. Rather handsome when cov- 
ered with its little white blossoms. Pkt. 15c. 
OFFER 28A9—One pkt. each of the above for 85c. 
1 AUBRIETA or ROCK-PURPLE 
AUBRIETA PEERLESS g 
HY BRIDS—erx (2) 8. Splen- 
did low perennials for the 
rock garden, front of bor- 
der, or massing. Easy to 
grow and to delight in. 
Rose, lilac, mauve, purple, 
violet, crimson in vivid, 
rich blendings. Illustrated 
opposite. Pkt. 15c; Ye oz. 
40c. 
AUBRIETA LEICHTLINI 
—Rosy violet, near to crim- 
Sons kty e20Ga. eo opkktse 
for 50c. 
1 THE HARDY ASTERS 
Though called the glory of autumn, these true perennial 
Asters are not autumn flowers alone, for many of them 
bloom in summer, and several of the lower rock garden 
species come in spring. “‘kt’’ culture. ALPINUS—(2)12. An 
excellent early Aster, indispensable among the lower kinds, 
covered with large blue-purple flowers. Pkt. 20c; Woe oz. 35e. 
ELONGATUS—(8)12. Unique South African with big flow- 
ers, usually with crimson zoning. Protect in winter. Pkt. 
20c. FARRERI—(2-3)20. Shaggy flowers to 38-inch diameters, 
gold-centered, but with many long petals of blue-lavender: 
Each blossom’ is carried on its own stem, high over flat 
foliage mats. Pkt. 20c; 3 pkts, for 55¢. LINARIIFOLIUS— 
(Ionactis)—(4-5)15. Gold-centered lavender daisies are car- 
ried in rather close, upfacing clusters. Makes big clumps. 
Full sun. Pkt. 15c. NOVIAE-ANGLIAE—(5)50. New England 
Aster. Here is the cap-sheaf of the season, the rich culmina- 
tion of its color harvest. Big many-rayed flowers in blue- 
violet to deepest purpie, in rosy pink to rosy red. Seeds saved 
chiefly from fine named varieties. Pkt. 15c; 3 pkts. 40c. 
Plants, each 40c; 8 for $1.10. NOVIBELGI HYBRIDS— 
(3)30. It rules its season, the latter half of summer, coming 
before Noviae-Angliae, but overlapping a bit with it. Wide, 
bushy plants filled with flowers that may be white, mauve, 
lavender, lilac, pink, or rose; single or semidouble. Pkt. 20c; 
8 pkts. for 50c. HIMALAICUS—(8)16. Desirable dwarf, 
mountain species with rather large, narrow-petaled flowers 
of lilac blue. Pkt. 20c. PTARMICOIDES—(3)15. Pure white 
flowers in wide, flat corymbose sprays. Desirable for dry, 
sunny positions. Pkt. 15c. SPECTABILIS— (38-4)24. The Showy 
Aster. Lovely informal, blue-violet flowers of quite surprising 
size. Shade-tolerant. A fine species. Pkt. 20c; 3 pkts. for 50c. 
Plants, each 45c; 3 for $1.25. TATARICUS—(6)72. Latest 
and tallest of Hardy Asters. Many clusters of soft blue 
flowers. Pkt. 15c. Plants, each 45c; 3 for $1.25. MAUVE 
CUSHION—Delightful late bloomer for rock garden or bed- 
ding. Cushion-plants, 8 inches high by 18 across, are filled 
in October with blossoms of silvery mauve. Pkt. 20c. Plants 
each 50c; 3 for $1.40. 
OFFER 29A9—One pkt. each of the above for $1.60. 
ASTER HARDY PERENNIAL BLEND—The above, with 
others. An excellent mixture. Pkt. 15c; 3 pkts. for 40c. 

1 OTHER FINE HARDY ASTERS 
ALPINUS GOLIATH—10 inches. Excellent low Aster, bloom- 
ing in late spring. Big flowers in rich blue violet. Rock 
garden, edging, bedding. Plants, each 50c; 3 for $1.35. 
SUBCOERULEUS STAR OF WARTBURG—% inches. Another 
excellent, spring-blooming dwarf. Very large flowers of 
orange-centered dark blue. Plants, each 55c; 8 for $1.45. 
FRIKARTI—(Wonder of Staeffa)—20 inches. Everblooming 
hybrid from Switzerland, of highest horticultural merit. Big, 
long-rayed lavender blossoms for many months. An exceed- 
ingly showy Aster. Plants, each 60c; 3 for $1.60; 10 for $4.75. 
BARR’S PINK—60 inches. Best of the taller pink Asters. 
Large flowers of rich, rose pink. Enduring, making big 
clumps. Autumn. Plants, each 50c; 3 for $1.40. 
BLUE GOWN—50 inches. Autumn. Pyramidal spikes of 
brightest mid-blue. Plants. each 50c; 3 for $1.40. 
CONSTANCE—10 inches. Late summer. Flowers of true 
shell pink mound the bushy plants. Each 50c; 3 for $1.40. 
VIOLETTA—40 inches. Autumn. Semi-double blossoms of 
deepest blue-purple. We have seen no better Aster in this 
rich coloring. Plants, each 60c; 3 for $1.65; 10 for $4.60. 
HARRINGTON PINK—35 inches. Pure, true pink are the 
massed, double blossoms. Called the most handsome Aster. 
Early autumn. Plants, each 60c; 8 for $1.65; 10 for $4.60. 
CLIMAX—50 inches. Autumn. Close to skyblue are the big 
flowers, carried in pyramidal panicles. A splendid Aster. 
Plants, each 55c; 3 for $1.40. 
BEECHWOOD CHALLENGER—50 inches. Closest to real 
red of any Aster, a rich red-toned crimson, A floriferous 
beauty. Each 55c; 8 for $1.50. 
MOUNT EVEREST—50 inches. The plants are truly like 
piled, snowy mountains, massed white from bottom to top. 
Autumn. Plants, each 50c; 3 for $1.40. 
PALMYRA—30 inches. Autumn. Pyramids of semi-double 
flowers in a fine, bright pink. Plants, each 50c. 
RED ROVER—30 inches. Autumn. A fine Aster, long in 
bloom, flowers of rosy red with tone of violet. Plants, each 
50c; 3 for $1.40. 
PINK LADY—30 inches. Another autumn Aster of high 
merit, in a most attractive, pink tone. Plants, each 50c. 
OFFER 31AN9—One plant each of the above, together with 
one each of Asters spectabilis, tataricus, and Mauve Cushion, 
for $8.00. 
* ASTERS ANNUAL 
The oldtime name for them was China Aster, but botani- 
cally they are Callistephus. Desirable annuals of easy culture, 
quite unexcelled for summer and autumn cutting. 
ASTERS BY COLOR—Four good ones. GIGANTIC LOS 
ANGELES—325 inches. Clear pink, immense flowers to some- 
times 8-inch diameters, petals curled and interlaced. Pkt. 15c; 
Yg oz. 80c; % oz. 50c. SENSATION , 
—30 inches. Big, double flowers in the 
brightest and most intense of scarlets. 
Pkt. 15¢; We oz. 380c; WM oz. 50ce. 
GIANT BRANCHING AZURE—30 
inches. Full double flowers in clear, 
lavender blue. Fine for cutting. Pkt. 
15c; Ye oz. 30e; % oz. 50c. PEER- 
LESS—28 inches. Best of the yellows, 
a soft creamy primrose. Desirable for 
cut flower arrangements. Pkt. 15c; 
Yg oz. 35c. OFFER 32A9—One pkt. 
each of the four for 50c; Ye oz. of 
each for $1.00. 
ASTER CALIFORNIA GIANTS—36 
inches. Truly enormous flowers of 
feathery fullness, petals intercurled in manner of the great 
show Chrysanthemums. Long stems. Illustrated above. Pkt. 
15c; Ye oz. 380c; % oz. 50c. 
ASTER GIANT BRANCHING MIXED—32 inches. Big flowers 
of fullest doubleness, carried on long, branching stems. Widest 
color range. The strain in greatest use. Fine for cutting. 
Pkt. 15c; 1 oz. 35c; 14 oz. 65c. 
ASTER RAINBOW SINGLES—30 inches. Most graceful class 
for cutting. Long slender petals, small centers, good stems, 
colorings exceedingly varied and vivid. Effect is of big daisies 
in unusual hues. Pkt. 15¢; 1% oz. 35c; %4 oz. 65c. 
ASTER AVALON BLEND—AIll the better double-flowered 
Annual Asters in an unsurpassed mixture, full color and form 
range. Particularly desirable f tine! ; - 
40c; %4 oz. 70c. e for cutting. Pkt. 15¢; % oz. 

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