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Title: Lilly's complete annual catalog : seeds fertilizers stock foods bee supplies spray materiels poultry supplies
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Chas. H. Lilly Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Commercial catalogs Seeds Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs Seeds Catalogs Flowers Catalogs Vegetables Catalogs Agricultural implements Catalogs Poultry Equipment and supplies Catalogs
Publisher: Seattle, Wash. : Chas. H. Lilly 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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blue centers surrounded by a narrow golden circle,with reverse side of the petals a pale lilac. The flow-ers are especially valuable for cutting, the blooms last-ing a week or more. The undeveloped buds may becut and placed in water in a sunny window and willopen up as well as they would on the bush. The plant thrives best in bright sunshine, and bearsblooms in abundance from early in July until late infall. No. 601. Arctotis Grandis. .Pkt., 10c; oz., 50c. J2£& CROP BOOK fec»»nfS flowers, vegetable and farm crops, also sug-gestions for fertilizing and caring for thecrops. We will furnish it free with any orderif requested. Flower Seeds will be mailed, postpaid, to any postof&ce at prices shown in this catalog. PORTLAND The annual asters are among the mostsatisfactory flowering plants. From plantsstarted under glass or in the house inMarch or April blooms may be had inJuly or August; or the seed may beplanted outdoors in May and will pro-duce blooms in September and October.
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Superb Asters THE CHOICEST VARIETIES Produce Magnificent Blooms of This Moot Satisfactory \nnual Giant Comet OSTRICH PLUME ASTERS Cregos Giant Asters These are the finest and largest of all Comet As-ters. The flowers are immense, often five inches ormore in diameter, and are composed of long, wavy,twisted petals gracefully formed into loose, yet dense-ly double, half-globes, equaling some of the finerChrysanthemums. The plants are of luxuriant, branching growth, twofeet tall, and bearing twenty to thirty of these mag-rificent flowers on very long stems, which gives themadded value for cutting. They keep in good condi-tion longer than other varieties. No. 1012. Creg-os Giant Aster, White. .Pkt., 10c.No. 1013. Creg-os Giant Aster, Pink. . Pkt., 10c.No. 1036. Cregos Giant Aster, Crimson. Pkt., 10c.No. 1037. Cregos Giant, Lavender Pkt., 10c. Improved Victoria Asters Magnificent flowers, double clear to the center,massive and showy, with regular overlapping petals.The plants grow eighteen

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