ROSES, SEEDS, AND BULBS FOR 1896. 
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THE FINEST ASTERS. 
The alters are esteemed among the most beautiful 
and popular flowers grown from seed — they are 
easily raised and most abundant bloomers. The 
flowers are very large, full, regular form, perfectly 
double and of many rich and beautiful colors: deep 
crimson, pure white, dark blue, rose, pink, etc., far 
exceeding in brilliant beauty all other flowers of 
their season. We offer the very best seed of the fol- 
lowing new aftd choice varieties and hope our 
friends will give them a liberal trial. 
TRAUFFAUT'S PEONY-FLOWERED PERFEC- 
TION ASTERS are among the most beautiful and 
popular of all asters, very double, large and 
beautiful flowers, with line incurved petals, nearly 
thirty distinct colors mixed; grows eighteen 
inches high— a perfect mass of flowers. Pkt. 8 cts 
NEW COMET ASTERS. A magnificent new 
strain; plants twelve to fifteen inches high ; tine, 
regular pyramids completely covered with superb 
large double flowers, having fine curved and 
twisted petals, resembling the finest Japan chrys- 
anthemums; beautiful mixed colors. Pkt. 8 cts. 
NEW 
QUEEN AS- 
TERS. 
This beauti- 
ful aster is a 
very dwarf 
bushy grow- 
er, branches 
freely and is 
crowded full 
of extra 
large per- 
fectly dou- 
ble flowers 
like roses, 
white, crim- 
son and blue 
— three col- 
ors mixed. 
Pkt., 8 cts. 
NEW VIC- 
TORIA AS- 
TER. Grand 
flowers, of- 
ten measur- 
ing four in- 
ches across, 
rich, bril- 
liant colors ; 
plants grow 
even an d 
New Queen Aster. 
regular, each bearing twenty-five or thirty flowers; 
over twenty choice colors, mixed. Pkt. 8 cts. 
NEW YELLOW ASTER. This is a grand novelty 
offered for the first time last year; bears large, 
perfectly double flowers, round as a ball; color, 
clear, sulphur yellow; grows easily, blooms abun- 
dantly and is altogether a most valuable addition 
to the list of asters. Pkt. 8 cts. 
CONARD'S FINEST MIXED ASTERS. Includes 
the above varieties in splendid mixture. Pkt Sets. 
GOOD QUALITY MIXED ASTERS. Many choice 
varieties and colors. Pkt. 4 cts. 
New White Branching Aster. 
NEW WHITE BRANCHING ASTER. Magnifi- 
cent large double white flowers, frequently four 
inches across, borne on long, stout stems — one of 
the very best sorts and elegant for cut flowers. 
Pkt. 8 cts. 
Ageratum. 
AGERATUM. Grows easily, blooms quickly and 
is well-kuown as one of the prettiest deep blue 
flowers for beds and edgings. New Imperial Dark 
Blue. Pkt. 3 cts. 
ALYSSUM, LITTLE GEM. Much 
larger and finer than the old kind, 
blooms constantly all summer and 
fall. A sheet of pure white flowers. 
Deliciously sweet. Pkt. 4 cts. 
ALYSSUM, SWEET. A great favor- 
ite, very popular, grows easily 
everywhere, covered with pure 
white fragrant flowers the whole 
season. Pkt. 3 cts. 
AMBROSIA. A fine, hardy annual, 
with long, spiral stems, bearing 
small yellow flowers of most delic- 
ious fragrance — fully equal to the 
rose geranium for floral work, but 
a different perfume. Seed may be 
sown early in open ground. It is 
Alyssum, Little Gem. easily grown. Pkt. 6 ets. 
BACHELORS BUTTON, Double. Nearly all the flowers from the seeds we offer are double or semi- 
double, much larger and finer than the old kinds, and many new and bright colors. Finest 
mixed, Pkt. 4 cts. 
