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Yaughaii's Fireball. 

 Yaiighan's Improved Victoria. 

 Vesuvius. 



Vick's New Branching. 

 Victoria, Apple Blossom. 

 Victoria, Bourdeaux Red. 

 Victoria, Dark Scarlet. 

 Victoria, Dwarf Bonquet, Crim- 

 son. 

 Victoria, Dwarf Mixed. 

 Victoria, Dwarf Rose. 

 Victoria, Dwarf White. 

 Victoria, Cream Colored. 

 Victoria, Crimson. 

 Victoria, Large Flowering. 

 Victoria, Light Blue. 

 Victoria, Needle. 



Victoria, Needle Perfection. 

 Victoria, Peach Blossom. 

 Victoria, Purple. 

 Victoria, Striped. 

 Victoria, AVhite. 

 Washington, Crimson. 

 Washington, Light Blue. 

 Washington, Mixed. 

 Washington, Needle. 

 Washington, Peach Blossom. 

 Washington, Silver Gray. 

 Washington, White. 

 White Star. 

 White Wave. 

 Yellow Aster. 

 Zirngiebel's, Double White. 

 Zulu King. 



Respecting the cultivation of these China asters, little need be 

 said. If early flowers are wanted or if the plants are to be grown 

 in pots as specimens for exhibition, the seeds should be sown indoors 

 or in a frame as early as the middle of April, in this latitude. But 

 if the plants are to be grown in borders, it is quite as well to sow 

 the seed in the ground where the plants are to grow. The China 

 aster is essentially an autumn flower, and I have no desire, from the 

 amateur's standpoint, to force it ahead of its season and to make it 

 compete with the flowers of midsummer. We sowed the seeds of 

 about fifty vai-ieties on the 4:th of June last year. The soil was 

 rich and kindly — a good loam — and the plants came on with 

 vigor, and, notwithstanding a prolonged drought, every variety 

 gave a profuse bloom throughout September and October, and a 

 few sorts — like Queen of the Market — spent themselves and died 

 before frost came. 



China asters do not force well. They generally grow too tall and 

 are too slow in CDming into bloom. But experiments in forcing 

 them for winter bloom have not been made to any extent in this 

 country, and it is not improbable that some varieties might lend 

 themselves to this treatment with ease. 



There are two or three insects which prey upon the China aster 

 but they do not appear to be widespread. The most serious diffi- 

 culty with them is the rust, a h\ngus{Coleosdorium Soiichiarvensis) 

 which attacks the under side of the leaf and raises an orange- 

 colored pustule. Timely sprays with thecojDper fungicides will keep 



