Burgess’ Annual Flower 
Flowers are enjoyed by everyone and are so easily raised that any home can have an abundance of blos- 
We list with the annuals a few biennials and tender perennials which bloom and 


soms during the entire year. 
do their best the first year from seed and are usually treated as annuals. 
of years of careful selection, and no better strains are to be obtained at any price. 
ARE DELIVERED POSTPAID AT PRICES GIVEN. 
DISEASE -TREATED 
Super Giant Aster 
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. 
Pkt., 20c; 14 oz., 65c; 14 oz., $1.00. 
SUPER GIANT EL MONTE. The only really giant flowered 
crimson Aster. Similar to Super Giant Los Angeles, except 
color, which is a deep glowing crimson. Pkt., 20¢; 1% oz., 65c; 
y% oz., $1.00. 
SANTA MARIA WHITE. 
largest fiowered white Aster. 
4% 0z., 65c; %4 oz., $1.00. 
50c Specia 
varieties. 
the 
20c; 
and stems; 
PKs 
Immense flowers 
Superb for florists, 
For those who want the finest Asters yet 
developed, we recommend the above three 
Three packets, one of each, for 50c. 
flakes. 
describe. 




Sunshine Aster 
Burgess Seed & Plant Co. 
32 GALESBURG, MICHIGAN 

The seeds we offer are the products 
ALL FLOWER SEEDS 
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., 30c; % oz., 50c; 1% 0oz., 80c. 

Seeds for Cut Flower 
_ Fragrance and 
| Quick Results 
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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 114% 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 stems, 
and good lasting quality make them unsur- 
passed for cutting, Mixed colors—Pkt., 15c} 
Excellent for garden display and particularly fine for cutting. 
offer a fine mixture of colors, 
lilac, crimson, rose and white. 




Queen of the Market 
{ Wilt-Resistant) 
A late flowering 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 culti ration, average 5 
inches across. A fine mixture, including Crimson, 
Scarlet, Bright Rose, Flesh Pink, Sky Blue, Purple, 
White, ete. Seed in mixed colors only—Pkt., 10c; 
1% 0z., 30c; 1% oz., 50c; 144 0z., 80c. 
Giant Sunshine Asters 
improved Anemone-Flowered 
A beautiful type of Aster, forming well-branched bushes carrying 
fusion of excellent long-stemmed flowers. e 
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 
The blue flowers are dotted with a paler blue and some in white, and 
the rose in a lighter shade of pink or white. ‘ 
( a pro- 
Some of the flowers have twisted 
Their delicate beauty is hard to 
We 
including the bright and delicate shades of blue, 
Pkt., 15¢; 4% oz., 50c; 4 oz., 90e. 
Heart of France (Wilt Resistant) 
A wonderful pure red Aster. 
much yellow in, the color pigments. 
ruby, deepens with age and retains 
The petals appear strikingly changeable, 
unique, now a soft warm velvety texture. 
Heart of France is startlingly beautiful and will command instant admiration. 
The flowers are large and full with never a trace-of hollow center, Phkt., (5e: 
¥% oz., 45c; %4 oz., 80c. ‘ 
Nearly all others have shades of blue or too 
Heart of France opens red as the purest 
its remarkable beauty to the very end. 
showing now a glow and sheen quite 
In any light, natural or artificial, 
Burgess’ Special Aster Mixture 
For those who want a mixture of all varicties of Asters, we have 
made a blend of all varieties described on this and the next page. 
The mixture is well balanced for color and variety. Pkt., 20c, 
% 04., 45c¢; % oz., 80c; % oz., $1.40. 


American Branching 
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 branehed, and covered 
_ With double flowers. The 
flowers are perfect in form, 
average 3144 inches across, 
and resemble Dahlias. 
Bloom from early August 
until frost. Pkt., 15e; 4% 
0z., 45¢; % oz., 80c. 
Giant 
Ostrich Feather 
Wilt-Resistant. Magnificent, 
feathery, full fluffy flowers of 
large size, on long stems. Fine 
mixture of colors. Pkt., 10c; % 
0z., 35c; 14 0oz., 60c. 

