. Faxon's catalogue of seeds : season of 1900. Nursery stock Massachusetts Boston Catalogs; Seed industry and trade Massachusetts Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Faxon's It is now more than twenty years that I have made a study of the cultivation of As- ters — during that time I have grown, both for the mar- ket and exhibi- tion purposes, all classes and varieties, as well as all novelties m this flower introduced from time to time both by for- eign and American seedsmen — and every season my opinion has strengthened that
. Faxon's catalogue of seeds : season of 1900. Nursery stock Massachusetts Boston Catalogs; Seed industry and trade Massachusetts Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Faxon's It is now more than twenty years that I have made a study of the cultivation of As- ters — during that time I have grown, both for the mar- ket and exhibi- tion purposes, all classes and varieties, as well as all novelties m this flower introduced from time to time both by for- eign and American seedsmen — and every season my opinion has strengthened that three classes of asters practically include the cream of the list; these three asters are Truffaut's Pseony- Flowered Perfection, the Victoria, and the Imbricated Pompon. Truffaut's Paeony-Flowered Perfection and the Vic- toria are both large asters; the petals of the former incurving to the centre, the petals of the lat- ter recurving to the edge (see illustration). Imbri- cated Pompon Asters have small flowers about the size of a half-dollar. No garden is complete without its bed of asters, and if some of each variety above noted is planted, I feel sure your asters cannot be anything but a grand success. Through my long acquaintance with the growers of aster seed all over the world, together with my own experience; 1 cannot but feel that my strains of seed of these flowers will compare most favorably with any to be obtained. I am not offering you novelties ; on the contrary, these flowers are old garden favor- ites, that with years of care and study have been grown to perfection. Below you will find listed my Best Asters, and on the next page full descrip- tions of the three splendid classes, a blending of which seed composes:— Faxon's Royal Mixed Asters. This strain is the ne plus ultra of all varieties, and is composed of the three magnificent classes described on the next page. No aster seed that has ever been sent out will give better results than this superb mixtur
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