. Dreer's garden book : seventy-sixth annual edition 1914. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. IHWADRE^R -PniJAKLPHIAMmHARDY PEREhhIAL PbANTS- \\1\ isi. Hard Asters, or Michaelmas Daisies. New Hardy Asters. Xhendrote (Evening Glow). One of the most effective September and Octo- ber flowering sorts, with rosy-red flowers; plants about 2J feet high, much branched and very free-flowering. Beauty of Colwall. This is unques- tionably one of the finest of the Michaelmas Daisies, of
. Dreer's garden book : seventy-sixth annual edition 1914. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. IHWADRE^R -PniJAKLPHIAMmHARDY PEREhhIAL PbANTS- \\1\ isi. Hard Asters, or Michaelmas Daisies. New Hardy Asters. Xhendrote (Evening Glow). One of the most effective September and Octo- ber flowering sorts, with rosy-red flowers; plants about 2J feet high, much branched and very free-flowering. Beauty of Colwall. This is unques- tionably one of the finest of the Michaelmas Daisies, of upright, free- branching habit, about 4 feet high, and literally covered during September with large semi-double flowers of agera- tum-blue, a pleasing shade. Feltham Blue. One of the most deco- rative free-flowering blue varieties, a pretty shade of analine-blue, produced on freely branched plants Au- gust and September; 2^ feet high. Grandiflorus. Not a new sort, but one of ^he finest of all, and distinct in character and flower from all others. The flowers, of a lovely dark bluish- violet, frequently measure 2 inches in diameter. It is the latest to flower — October and November—and by lifting the plants can be flowered in connection with Chrysanthemums, where its effect is very beau- tiful. 50 cts. each; $ per doz. Thompsoni. One of the most beautiful large-flowered sorts yet in- troduced. The flowers are of graceful, stellate form and of a pleasing Venetian-blue color; grows 15 to 18 inches high, and blooms in July and August. Price, except where noted, 25 cts. each; $ per doz. Set of 5 sorts for $ DWARF ASTERS. Aipinus. Indispensable for the rockery, or edge of hardy border; grows G to 10 inches high, and bears large, showy bluish-purple flowers in May and June. — Albus. Identical to the above, but with pure white flowers. Sub Coeruleus. Forms a dense tuft of leaves, from which issue many leafless stems 12 inches high, bearing in June a
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