. Dreer's garden calendar : 1899. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. DREER'S RELIABLE FLOWER SEEDS. 59 DREER'S SUPERB ASTERS PER PKT. Betteridge's Quilled. Perfectly double tube or quilled-shaped petals ; valuable for bouquets and bedding ; 2 feet. 5225 Yellow. This variety is real'}' yellow, the large double flowers being of a bright sulphur 5 5200 Mixed Colors 5 5238 Climax, or Tree. A new Aster of the Pseony flowered type, but shows a great improvement over that popular s
. Dreer's garden calendar : 1899. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. DREER'S RELIABLE FLOWER SEEDS. 59 DREER'S SUPERB ASTERS PER PKT. Betteridge's Quilled. Perfectly double tube or quilled-shaped petals ; valuable for bouquets and bedding ; 2 feet. 5225 Yellow. This variety is real'}' yellow, the large double flowers being of a bright sulphur 5 5200 Mixed Colors 5 5238 Climax, or Tree. A new Aster of the Pseony flowered type, but shows a great improvement over that popular sort. The plant grows about 2 feet high, as regularly branched as a pine tree, flowers of immense size ; dazzling white ; very double 10 5173 Cocardeau, or Crown. Showy flowers, very double, with white centres bordered with bright rich colors ; mixed colors ; 1.', feet 10 5171 Fireball. A magnificent sort with very double imbricated flowers of a brilliant deep scarlet 10 5177 Giant Emperor. Flowers of great size, very double, fine form, brilliant colors and robust growth, mixed colors ; 2 feet 10 5181 Japanese, or Tassel. Entirely distinct and novel. Plants of pyramidal growth, about 18 inches high, bearing on long stems from 40 to 50 flowers, averaging 5 inches across, composed of wavy and twisted needle-shaped petals, making the flower free and graceful in appear- ance. Mixed colors. (See cut) 10 5185 Mont Blanc. {). One of the largest flowering, producing pure white flowers 5 inches in diameter . . .10 5244 Ostrich Feather. This mag- nificent new Aster bears some resemblance to the Giant White Comet, differing in its candelabrum form of growth and much greater freedom of bloom, but its greatest merit is found in its flowers, which are of immense size, averaging 6 inches in diameter, of a beauti- ful snow-white, made up of much longer, more loosely formed petals, equaling the best Japanese Chrysanthemums. A "Gem" among Asters ... 15 Queen of the Market. Blooms
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