THE MICHAELMAS 
DAISY. 
Rie Aster amellus. 
© ICHAELMAS DAISIES are not in 
high repute, for they aré not well 
represented in gardens. A cer- 
tain number of coarse, weedy sorts 
have obtained entrance, and have 
spread far and wide; and when, 
by the artistic eye, they are 
weighed in the balances and 
found wanting, the whole race is 
condemned for their defects. But 
there are in cultivation some 
truly noble kinds, and many that 
are beautiful and useful if not 
noble ; and their value is in some 
degree enhanced by the fact of 
their flowering late in the summer 
when the gaiety of the garden is 
overpast. From August to the 
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close of the year is the season of 
the Michaelmas daisies; one of their number (Aster grandi- 
florus) is ealled the “Christmas daisy,’ because of its 
late flowering, and it is not at all uncommon for them 
to fight the frost mght after night as the season wears 
on, and come out triumphant at last im unfolding to 
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