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rays, of a singularly translucent quality of color. 

 The white ones are particularly delicate and alto- 

 gether lovely. There are many new varieties of the 

 aster, but they do not diverge very greatly from the 

 types already mentioned. 



The flower blooms in late summer and early 

 autumn ; the varieties forced to bloom in midsummer 

 can not be considered perfectly satisfactory. True 

 blue is not a color peculiar to the flower, and those 

 varieties named blue are, as a rule, strongly satu- 

 rated with purple ; nor is there a scarlet aster ; any 

 flower so called is most likely pure red with a crim- 

 son cast. 



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