Title: Burpee's farm annual 1893
Identifier: burpeesfarmannua1893watl (find matches)
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: W. Atlee Burpee Company; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. A. : 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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n8 W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., PHILADELPHIA.
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TRIUMPH ASTER. This distinct novelty forms compact plants only about eight inches high, each covered with large, handsome, perfectly formed flowers of extra beauty. The individual tiowers measure from t wo and a half to three inches across, and are of the most faultless pseony form, all the petals being beautifully incurved. The color is peculiarly rich and brilliant; when beginning to bloom it is a pure scarlet, but when in full bloom it changes to a magnifi- cent satiny scarlet, presenting thus, with these two bril- liant colors, a most lovely sight. The flowers, on account of their weight, bend slightly at varying angles, but do not droop so as to impair their beauty, each plant form- ing a bouquet of itself. It is the most charming of all dwarf Scarlet Asters in cultivation to-day. Per pkt. 15 cts; 2 pkts. 25 cts. ASTER, QUEEN OF SPRING. By starting the seed early it can be had in bloom before the calendar months of spring have ended. It resembles somewhat the Queen of the Market Aster, but flowers from two to three weeks earlier, making it decidedly the earliest of all Asters. Of low, dwarf growth, it is sure to prove valuable for pot culture as well as for cutting purposes; the double flowers of good size are borne upon long steins. We offer pure white, the original color, and also all colors mixed. Per pkt. 15 cts.; 2 pkts. for 25 cts. A SINGLE PLANT OF COMET ASTER. NEW COMET ASTERS. The plants of this new tribe are now perfectly true in character, growing twelve to fifteen inches high, forming fine, regular pyramids completely covered with large, double flowers,"as shown in the illustration. The large, perfectly double flowers measure from three and a half to four and a half inches in diameter, resembling in shape and artistically curved and twisted petals the finest Chinese chrysanthemums. Of unusual and really unique beauty. Comet Aster, Deep Rose, Per pkt. 15 . " " Pink Bordered with White, . . 15 This is the original color of the Comet Asters, and to our liking the most beautiful of all colors. " " Bright Light Blue, Bordered with White. A superb novelty, 15 " " Finest mixed. Of all colors; a superb strain., . . . . Per pkt. W 2 pkts. for 25 cts.

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