China Aster--Dondle, 
Callisteplhus Chinensis. Narurar Orver: Composite —Aster Family. 
exquisite pains in their cultivation, the Aster being one of their 
especial favorites. With infinite patience they place the various 
colors so as to form, according to their taste, an artistic mass in 
gardens and pleasure grounds. The varieties now supplied by 
seedsmen are numerous, the colors the most perfect that one 
could wish, and filled with petals to the center. They bloom from 
midsummer until late in the autumn, or until frost sets its sharp teeth 
in their prodigal blossoms. On the approach of winter, those that 
have unexpanded buds can be lifted and transferred to the house, 
and if wasted flowers are clipped will remain in bloom some time. 
The scientific name is derived from the Greek, and signifies beau- 
tiful crown. 
Bounty. 
HAT you desire of him, he partly begs 
To be desir’d to give. It much would please him, 
That of his fortunes you would make a staff 
To lean upon. —Shakespeare. 
ARGE was his bounty, and his soul sincere; N all places, then, and in all seasons, 
Heaven did a recompense as largely send; Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, 
He gave to misery all he had —a tear; Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, 
He gain’d from heav’n—’twas all he wished, a friend. How akin they are to human things. 
—Gray. —Longfellow. 
UCH moderation with thy bounty join 
That thou may’st nothing give that is not thine to give. 
—Denham. 
Fao more than all, ye speak To gladden all the earth 
Of might and power, of mercy, of the One With bright and beauteous emblems of His grace, 
Eternal, who hath strew’d you fair and meek, That showers its gifts of uncomputed worth 
To glisten in the sun; In every clime and place. 
—Mary Anne Browne. 
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