Late August and Early September 



Aster glacialis of the botanies, is found 

 growing 12,000 feet above the sea. The 

 blue and purple varieties, those having 

 blue and purple ray-flowers, that is, are 

 much commoner than those w4th white 

 ray-flowers. Over fifty of the former are 

 found in the Northeastern States to about 

 a dozen of the latter. 



Of the white species the earliest to 

 bloom is the corymbed aster, which can 

 be identified by its slender, somewhat 

 zigzag stems, its thin heart-shaped leaves, 

 and its loosely clustered flower-heads. It 

 grows plentifully in the open woods, espe- 

 cially somewhat northward. In swamps 

 and moist thickets v^^e find the umbelled 

 aster, ^vith its long, tapering leaves, and 

 flat clusters w^hich it lifts at times to a 

 height of seven feet. A beautiful variety 

 which is abundant along the coast is 

 the many - flowered aster. This is a 

 bushy, spreading plant somewhat sugges- 

 tive of an evergreen, with little, narrow, 

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