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"White Heath Aster," called often the white 

 rosemary or farewell summer, abundant and 

 gladly welcomed; the Jerusalem Artichoke, 

 abounding in damp places, called also the wild 

 sunflower, whose happy faces smile and nod 

 at every passer-by. The Chrysanthemum fam- 

 ily is immense, over four hundred distinct vari- 

 eties and new hybrids swell the list yearly. The 

 florists have hot-housed it and compelled huge 

 and gorgeous forms. "The king of the crim- 

 sons" is the finest of the dark red order. This 

 golden flower is queen of October gardens. 

 What a wealth of bloom, the like of which we 

 never saw even in June. Oliver Wendell 

 Holmes sings of this angel flower as though she 

 were an angel-queen: 



"The fields are stripped, the groves are dumb, 

 The frost flowers greet the icy moon, 

 Then blooms the bright chrysanthemum." 



Our native American shrubs are among the 

 finest in the world. A shrub is rated for just 

 what it can do. It must be able to render a 

 service, either because of its rich and varied 

 foliage or flowers or fruit. Imagine them all 

 taken away and only the forest trees left. What 

 a loss to garden and landscape. What a loss 

 to the birds which love best of all to hide in 



