Title: Annual descriptive catalogue of seeds, & c : February 1st, 1886
Identifier: annualdescriptiv1886jose (find matches)
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Joseph Breck & Sons; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Joseph Breck & Sons
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Catalogue of Flower Seeds. 57
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This is not only one of the most popular, but also one of the most effective of our garden favorites, producing, in profusion, flowers in which richness and variety of color are combined with the most perfect and beautiful form. The vast improvement made in the last few years by the English and German growers of this showy flower cannot be too highly spoken of. We refer especially to the different varieties of Truffaut's Paeony-flowered and the New Washington Asters. The La Superbe varieties of the first-named are rightly termed, for in every respect they are truly superb. The New Washington varieties are extremely beautiful, attaining a very large size, averaging inches in diameter, and in delicacy of tints are unequaled. Aster seed should be sown early in the Spring in a hot-bed or window box, and transplanted out-doors when the weather is warm, about 12 inches apart — the taller varieties a little farther apart, and the dwarf varieties a little nearer together. For late flowering, seed may be sown in the open ground from the ist to the loth of Alay. German quilled. For beauty and quality of flower, and variety and brilliancy^ of color, nothing finer in the way of a quilled Aster can be had than this strain. Mixed colors, Betteridge's choice quilled, mixed colors, —Collection of loo seeds each, 12 distinct colors, Cocardeau or Crown, large white-centered flowers; attractive and beautiful; mixed colors; 2 ft., —Collection of 100 seeds each, 6 distinct colors, Dwarf Chrysanthemum, immense flowers; free bloomer; mixed colors ; % ft., —Collection of 100 seeds each, 12 distinct colors, Dwarf Pyramidal Bouquet, so profuse in bloom that the foliage is completely hidden with flowers; mixed colors; i ft., . —Collection of loo seeds each, 6 distinct colors, Giant Emperor, immense brilliant flowers, very double ; mixed colors ; i /a ft-, —Collection of loo seeds each, 8 distinct colors, Hedgehog, Porcupine, or Needle, a grand varietv, with large massive flowers, the petals of which are long, quilled, and sharply pointed; mixed colors; 2 ft., Imbricated Pompon, exquisitely formed small flowers; mixed colors; 1% h., . ■ —Collection of 100 seeds each, 12 distinct colors, Pkt. Paeony-flowered Globe, very early variety, vigorous habit, and large flowers, very double ; mixed colors; 2 ft., i Truffaut's French Paeony-fiowered Per- fection. This is the most perfect type of the Pson3'-flowered Asters; the habit of the plant is excellent, the flowers are perfect in quality, form, size and color ; choicest mixed; 1 >2 ft-, • —Collection of 100 seeds each, 12 distinct colors, —Collection of too seeds each, 8 distinct colors, La Superbe, rose; sky-blue and white; pure white; each, —Mixture of 3 colors, Victoria, of vigorous habit, pyramidal form: flowers very large, beautifully imbricated, and. freely produced; mixed colors; i>^ft., . —White, tinted with rose, a new delicately col- ored variety, the young flowers of which are particularly charming and well adapted for bouquet-making, ...... —Collection of loo seeds each, 12 distinct colosj^. New Washington, without exception the largest Aster in cultivation, the flowers being fre- quently 4 to 5 inches in diameter, and of perfect form ; mixed colors; 2 ft., —Collection of 100 seeds each, 4 distinct colors, 25 15 25 25

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