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the river, while the pastures and hill-sides are 

 brilliant with the bonfires which it kindles on 

 every hand. It is certainly reasonable to sup- 

 pose that some of us who live where it flourishes 

 ought to have hay-fever if this disagreeable 

 disease is so produced. But the fact is, we 

 do not have it. .The only cases of hay- fever 

 ever known in the eastern part of Wisconsin 

 are those which come from the city. By com- 

 ing into the haunts of the plant, they at once 

 find relief, and, moreover, if the sufferer comes 

 early enough in the season he may escape it 

 altogether. Another charge not long ago 

 made against the Golden-rod was that horses 

 were killed by eating it. This claim is quite 

 as absurd as the other, for horses and cattle 

 are pastured where it grows year after year, 

 and we have never heard of one case of injury 

 from it. So far as I have been able to observe, 

 they never touch it. 



Aster is far less brilliant than the 

 A Golden-rod, but it has about it a dreamy, 

 hazy kind of beauty which makes it a universal 

 favorite with those who are fond of quiet 

 colors. There are many varieties of the Aster 



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