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No one can tell you how to do this. 

 You must work it out for yourself, and 

 learn to subordinate all detail that is 

 not necessary to the recording of the 

 impression that the mind has received. 



An expensive outfit is not necessary, 

 but a trained mind is. 



A Winter Bouquet of Asters. 

 The winter flora in many respects 

 is not less beautiful than that of the 



A WINTER STUDY OF HEAD OF ASTER. 



warmer weather. Asters, golden-rod 

 and hawkweeds seem more attractive 

 when tipped by their fluffy pappus than 

 when their rays are spread to the sun. 

 Is there anything more delightful dur- 

 ing a walk in late November or De- 

 cember or even later, than to find in 

 some secluded corner a row of the short 

 stemmed yet picturesque white asters? 

 These hold their seeding heads until 

 far into the cold weather and until the 

 blustering winds scatter them far and 

 wide over the surrounding fields. 



Each one of these heads is a miracle 

 in itself. The lover of nature will find 

 here a wonderful revelation of beauty 

 and of ingenious arrangement. Botan- 

 ists tell us that this white wood aster 

 (Aster divaricatus) has pappus bristles 

 that are slender and numerous and that 

 the plants may be found in woodlands, 

 in thickets and by the roadside from 

 August until October. But the bot- 

 anists are only partly right because 



FALLING OFF AND FLOATING AWAY. 



the pappus bristles in their delicious 

 profusion may be found even in mid- 



AS WE WERE CARRIED BY WINTRY WINDS. 



