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Title: Spring 1896
Identifier: CAT31282470 (find matches)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Storrs & Harrison Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Ohio Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Nursery stock; Vegetables; Plants, Ornamental; Fruit trees; Fruit; Trees
Publisher: Painesville, Ohio : Storrs & Harrison 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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FLOWER SEEDS. 33 ASTERS. The most popular and useful of all our annuals. For early flowers the seed may be 60wn in the house, or greenhouse, in March or April, and transplanted in the open ground in May. However, as the Aster is essentially a Fall flower, and the late blossoms are the finest,-it is best to sow the seed in the bed thinly early in May, and transplant when strong enough, setting the plants of the large varieties twelve inches apart and the dwarf ones six inches apart. Half- hardy annuals.
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diameter, borne on long , stems, adding greatly to their value for vases or bunches. The petals are broad, long, and many of them more or less twisted and curled in such a manner as to give the blooms the appearance of large, loose and IT graceful Chrysanthemums. The resemblance is so perfect that nearly every one would so con- sider them when seen as cut flowers ,10 Comet. This beautiful race of Asters is very dis- tinct, differing from all others in shape of flowers. They are of immense size, larger than any other class of Asters; four to five inches across, with long wavy and twisted petals formed into a dense half globe, somewhat resembling the Japanese Chrysanthemum, 3)^ to 4 inches across. Deep Rose 10 Pink, bordered with white 10 Light Blue 10 SnOW White. A beautiful variety with long pure white-twisted petals; flowers very large and double; one of the finest 10 Choice Mixed 10 Dwarf Pyramidal Bouquet. A magnificent dwarf variety ; a single well-grown plant produc- ing 150 to 200 flowers; fine for edging; 1 foot; 6 distinct colors ; mixed 5 Triumph. One of the most beautiful and perfect of all dwarf Asters, each plant forms an elegant bouquet of itself, seven to eight inches high. Color a rich brilliant scarlet 10 New White Branching". Plant a strong grower of branching habit, and continues to grow and bloom later in the season than any other variety. The flowers are very large, often four inches in

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