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somer, to our taste, and embrace all the colors to be found in the 

 Aster. 



2cl. German Globe Pyramid Asters, in twelve distinct vari- 

 eties. This class has globular full flowers. When properly 

 cultivated, it makes fine branching pyramidal plants, covered 

 with a profusion of perfect flowers of every color and shade. 



3d. German Quilled Aster is put up in collections of twelve 

 distinct varieties, of the same colors and mixtures as the others. 

 In this variety the petals are beautifully quilled. 



4th. French Globe Asters, in twelve varieties, similar to the 

 German Globe Aster, but different in their growth. 



5th. German Dwarf Asters, in eight varieties. The dwarfs 

 are a beautiful class, not more than eight or ten inches high, 

 completely covered with flowers. 



6th. New Dwarf Bouquet Aster, in twelve varieties. This 

 is a very beautiful class, each plant forming a perfect bouquet. 



In the cultivation of improved Asters the soil should be made 

 very rich; the tall varieties planted not less than fourteen or 

 fifteen inches apart ; the dwarf sorts from ten inches to one foot. 



The Aster is known among the French as the Reine Maryuerettes. 

 The Peony-flowered variety of the . Queen Margaret is grown in 

 great perfection by a florist at Versailles, where some of the finest 

 varieties have been produced. On account of the beauty, perfec- 

 tion, and grandeur of I:s lowers, and the softness, brilliancy, 

 and variety of its colors, it must stand in the first rank among 

 the ornamental plants of the flower garden. 



For early blooming plants, the seed should be sown in frames, 

 with a little bottom heat, in April. When the plants have be- 

 come sufficiently strong, they may be transplanted into beds or 

 borders the last of May. But for late flowering plants, they suc- 

 ceed full as well when the seed is sown in the open ground, from 

 the 1st to the 10th of May. This applies to all the varieties. 



ARCTOTIS.. 



Arctotis breviscapa. New Annual. The genus Arctotis 

 consists of plants mostly from the Cape of Good Hope. It was 



