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Title: Burpee's farm annual for 1900
Identifier: CAT31284446 (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: W. Atlee Burpee Company; Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee), 1858-1915; Fordhook Farms; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia : W. Atlee Burpee & Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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BURPEE'S FARM ANNUAL FOR 1900. 9i
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A well-grown Flower of GlANT COMET ASTER,—average size. Giant WHITE BRANCHING COMET Aster. First introduced by us last season, this new type has the strong, free-branching, tall habit of growth as the Semple strain, combined with the beautiful flower of the Comet type greatly increased in size. The flowers are of the purest white, four to six inches or more in diameter, with outer petals reflexed as in a fine Japanese Chrysan- themum, while the center is composed of short, finely quilled petals, the whole making a flower of unsurpassed beauty. 5 cts. and 10 cts. per pkt. New Giant Branching Comet Aster, "VICTORY," The plants grow sixteen to eighteen inches high, branching so vigorously that they measure about twenty inches across. The full, double flowers, sometimes five inches in diameter, are of the true Comet type, the center being a whorl of petals. The color is a beautiful rose-pink, which seems to be underlaid with a deeper coloring of rich purple, as in the New Sweet Pea, Colonist. The stems are ten to twelve inches long and each plant carries twenty-eight to thirty-five blooms, besides numerous buds. Time of flowering same as that of the regular Comet Asters. 5 cts. and 10 cts. per pkt. New Giant Branching Comet Aster,—" FREEDOM. Plants of the same strong, vigorous growth as our new Aster, " Victory,1 bearing very large flowers upon long stems. Of a bright carmine, striped with white, the large, broad petals are well reflexed and quite feathery in effect. This is the variety we presented for trial last season. Per pkt. 10 cts.; 3 pkts. for 25 cts. m~ For All Other ASTERS,—see pages 93 and 94. «3=*

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