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one again. But when I remembered one 

 October morning years ago at West Point, 

 when the mountains along the Hudson River 

 were all ablaze with scarlet, crimson, and 

 yellow, and the feet of the cadets on their 

 way to Sunday chapel brushed through a 

 mist of dwarf mauve " Asters " on the parade 

 ground, I repented me of my impatience at 

 the misuse of so delightful a plant. Merci- 

 fully Mother Nature never plants " collec- 

 tions," and surely she knows best ; and it is 

 therefore well to follow her guidance. A 

 mass of mauve and purple Michaelmas Daisies 

 as background to a bold group of Red-hot 

 Pokers, forms a most striking point in the 

 Autumn garden ; especially if they can be so 

 placed as to have a further background of 

 dark hedge, wood, or evergreens. And the 

 many charming white varieties the tall, 

 graceful, branching Decima or some kindred 

 sort, with the delicate Ericoides and tiny 

 heath-like multiflorus can be used in a score 

 of ways in beds or borders so planted as to 

 carry out delightful colour schemes from 



