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heads on long pedicels adorning the graceful spreading branches 
give it an airy Beane quite in contrast to its taller ta 
referred to above. Still another of the white ones is A. wimin 
the small white aster, - of small stature. This is a ee 
little plant with innumerable small white starry flowers crowded 
on and closely attached to one side of the spreading wand-like 
branches. 
Among the colored asters one of the best is the common blue 
wood- aster, Aster cordifolius. eads are rather small, but 
oe color that the plant is a most effective one for decorative 
purposes. It attains a height sometimes of four feet or more, 
and its large broad leaves with the heart-shaped base, from which 
it derives its name, add a desirable feature. Lowrie’s Aster, Aster 
Lowrieanus, much resembles the above, but has larger flowers 
and often narrower leaves. hile the purple-stemmed aster, A. 
to casecplinting The New York a A: Novi. Belg, with 
and the latter confined to our western area, have been in cultiva- 
tion with us i several ha and are most satisfactory. 
come ae hat nm August, and continue their abundance of 
flowers well into ane ber. B asteroides has pure white, and B. 
pues beautiful lavender rays. They both attain a yee 
of from three to five feet. 
The beauty of the colored asters is much enhanced by planting 
with them golden-rods and sunflowers, or others of the yellow- 
flowered forms, the contrast resulting in a gain to both. While 
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