Dreer's garden book : seventy-fourth annual edition 1912 . Dreers Peerless Pink Aster.. DREBRS PEERI.ESS PINK ?»BRANCHING ASTER. 1393 The illustration above, reproduced from a photograph, isasplea- id likeness of this grand, new pink Aster, which we sent out last year for the first time and which originated as a sport in a lot of Cregos Giant Pink Asters which we were growing for seed. In a general way, it is midway between Cregos Giant Pink and Late-branching Shell-pink, having all the good points of both. The plants are of robust, free-branching habit, 24 to 30inches high, bearing their magn
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Dreer's garden book : seventy-fourth annual edition 1912 . Dreers Peerless Pink Aster.. DREBRS PEERI.ESS PINK ?»BRANCHING ASTER. 1393 The illustration above, reproduced from a photograph, isasplea- id likeness of this grand, new pink Aster, which we sent out last year for the first time and which originated as a sport in a lot of Cregos Giant Pink Asters which we were growing for seed. In a general way, it is midway between Cregos Giant Pink and Late-branching Shell-pink, having all the good points of both. The plants are of robust, free-branching habit, 24 to 30inches high, bearing their magnificent blooms on strongstems averaging 18 inches in length, and it is hard to finda flower under 4 inches across, and many measure 5 inchesby 2J inches in depth, forming an almost globular flower.The centre petals are prettily incurved, while the wide, outer petals reflex, making a most artistic and finelyfinished flower. The color is a rich shell-pink, similar in shade, but more decided, than either the Pink Cregos or Late-branching It comes into bloom about the middle of August