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fine shrubbery plants, and sore of the smaller unattractive 
kinds are worth growing to cut from, for their clusters of 
little stars are often useful for decorative purposes, though 
as seen in the garden they may be inconspicuous and of 
small account. 
The safest rule of classification appears to be found in 
the relative heights of the plants. Beginning with the 
smallest, we have a charming thing in As/er «/pinus, the 
blue daisy of the Alps, a plant which in gardens grows 
to a height of six inches, producing large blue flowers, 
but in the mountain pastures is too short to rise above 
the fine grass, amidst which its flowers appear like large 
blue daisies. 
“ Star of the mead! sweet daughter of the day, 
Whose opening flower invites the morning ray, 
From thy moist cheek, and bosom’s chilly fold, 
To kiss the tear of eve, the dewdrops cold.” 
Other useful dwarf kinds are A. wé/aicus, with rosy 
purple flowers; A. patens, purplish-blue; A. sericeus, 
deep blue; A. versicolor, white changing to pale purple; 
A. dumosus, pale lilac-blue. 
Another series adapted for second and third rows are 
the following :—A. amellus, flowers blue with yellow disc, 
one of the best; 4. dracunculoides, purplish-blue, fine ; 
d. fragilis, flowers white, changing to rose or purple; 
A. levis, purple with yellow centre, useful and good ; 
A. laxus, pale blue, fine; A. pendilus, white, changing to 
rose; A. pyreneus, lilac-blue with yellow disc; A. fur- 
binellus, delicate mauve, a handsome plant. In_ this 
section occur the most generally useful kinds. 
Amongst the taller sorts suitable for planting amongst 
shrubs and in the reserve garden the best are 4. cords/folius, 
