. Bancroft's beautiful flowers : spring '98. Nursery stock, Iowa, Cedar Falls, Catalogs; Flowers, Seeds, Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants), Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs; Shrubs, Catalogs. ASTERS. One of the most popular flowers grown and one of the easiest culture. By starting some seed in the house and growing in suc- cession, using the Vick's and Semple's branching for late, you can have a succession of bloom from July till frost. Semple's Branching. A choice strain of American-grown Asters that, by careful selection, has been brought to perfection. Of branching habit, flowers of largest si


. Bancroft's beautiful flowers : spring '98. Nursery stock, Iowa, Cedar Falls, Catalogs; Flowers, Seeds, Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants), Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs; Shrubs, Catalogs. ASTERS. One of the most popular flowers grown and one of the easiest culture. By starting some seed in the house and growing in suc- cession, using the Vick's and Semple's branching for late, you can have a succession of bloom from July till frost. Semple's Branching. A choice strain of American-grown Asters that, by careful selection, has been brought to perfection. Of branching habit, flowers of largest size and on very long stems. Beautiful clear pink and white and lavender mixed. Packet, 15 cents: 2 packets, 25 cents. Vick's New White Branching. Flowers are of purest white and borne on long stems; greatly resemble Chrysanthemums in every way. Late flowering. Packet, 10 cents. Balls of Fire. The most brilliant red Aster we have ever seen. Of compact, pyramidal growth and an abundant bloomer. Packet, 10 cents. "Snowball," or Princess White. An excellent new dwarf White Aster, producing an abundance of flowers semi-spherical in form, composed of short, very thickly set, imbricated petals, a single plant often developing as many as thirty flowers. Packet, 10 cents. Comet. In shape resembles Jap- anese Chrysanthemums. The petals are long, somewhat twisted or waxy- like ; flowers large and perfectly double. Mixed varieties, 10 cents per packet. Comet. White, rose and lavender, separate colors. Packet, 10 cents; 3 packets, 25 cents. Trauffaut's Peony —Flowered Perfection. A handsome variety with incurved petals. The flowers are very large and almost perfectly round; grows about twenty inches high; sep- arate colors, white, rose, red, dark blue or lavender or all colors mixed. Packet, 10 cents; 3 packets, 25 cents. comet Victoria. Flowers globular shape, pyramidal growth. White, rose, lavender, or all colors mixed. Packet, 10 cents; 3 packets, 25 ceBts. Asters.—Choice mi


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