. Dreer's garden book / Henry A. Nursery Catalogue. DREER'S FAMOUS AMERICAN ASTERS â /% .a. Asters will thrive in any good soil, prepared in the same wa * ' f ? as you would for a crop of vegetables. They should have a "\v i '^SmwlHW^#jria open, sunny position, and prefer a good, heavy, loamy soil, enrich* ⢠' * " with a liberal quantity of bone meal or other good con mercial fertilizer; and the addition of wood ashes or ai: slacked lime, and should not be grown on the same groun year after year; it must be changed each seasoi The main essentials to insure fine Asters are j&
. Dreer's garden book / Henry A. Nursery Catalogue. DREER'S FAMOUS AMERICAN ASTERS â /% .a. Asters will thrive in any good soil, prepared in the same wa * ' f ? as you would for a crop of vegetables. They should have a "\v i '^SmwlHW^#jria open, sunny position, and prefer a good, heavy, loamy soil, enrich* ⢠' * " with a liberal quantity of bone meal or other good con mercial fertilizer; and the addition of wood ashes or ai: slacked lime, and should not be grown on the same groun year after year; it must be changed each seasoi The main essentials to insure fine Asters are j&I. - new rich soil, frequent cultivation, no check 1 their growth from start to finish and ample rooi Kir 7 to develop. When wanted for cutting with lor uow*. uSmt HKrr*5fe> between the rows. When wanted for mass effec in beds they may be planted nine inches to a foi apart each way. Asters are sometimes attacked by an aphis i "%i^^HHklL^3El.«Sbil^^S jlr?JiiHi . their toots; also by stem rot. Both of these troubl are rarely met with if the plants are grown on ne soil, and are not checked in their growth. Tl addition of wood ashes or air-slacked lime at tl WB^r time of the preparation of the beds also helps prevent these troubles. Astermum Asters â A strain of Comet Asters which, on account \^ their size and Chrysanthemum-like appearan have appropriately been named Astermums. The plants grc . 3 -* about 2 feet high, and erne into bloom a little earlier than t; V ; _2 Crego's Giant. We offer three fine colors, as under: URAsterAUTY jj^* 1261 Lavender. A rich shade of lavender or light violet. 1262 Pink. A very attractive shade of lively rose-pink. H 1263 White. Purest snow-white. U . A *â Price. Any of the above IS cts. per pkt.; special pkt., 50 cts tseauty Asters 1269 Collectionj a packet each of 3 kinds, 35 cts. A late flowering strain coming into bloom in late September, and being at their best through October, the plants grow nearly 3 feet high, and bear t
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