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formed in rainy wcatlier, wliicli will prevent their 

 being checked by transplanting. The French gar- 

 deners remove the China Asters with a transplanter, 

 sucli as is used to remove Tulips in flower. The 

 Chinese frequently keep them in pots until they 

 begin to flower, and by this means are able to place 

 them out so as to form an elegant distribution of 

 these floral stars. 



The bow of Iris ma}^ be imitated by planting 

 these flowers in regular shades, but this must be 

 on a large scale and on a sloping ground, or the 

 effect will be trifling. It may be performed in plant- 

 ations of young shrubs, before they have acquired 

 a size to cover the ground, as the crescent being in- 

 terrupted or broken in its progress by the shrubs 

 will rather contribute to than lessen the effect. The 

 upper side of the bow should be finished by a line 

 of yellow jMarigolds. 



We particularly recommend an abundance of the 

 China Aster to be planted in the shrubbery, since 

 no flower forms so good a contrast with the autum- 

 nal tints of trees and shrubs as these emblems of 

 variety. 



The young botanist w^ill observe, by comparing 

 this flower with the Helianthus, that it agrees in 

 having the florets of the disk bisexual, but differs 

 in those of the radius or margin, which are fur- 

 nished with a stigma only, but which are made 



