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March, 1912 



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Some Asters Worth Growing 



WITHOUT exaggeration there are hundreds of 

 names for aster varieties in the trade to-day. 

 Now all these are not different from each other and 

 in a great many cases where differences do exist 

 they are so minute that they are hardly worth 

 while considering. Each grower has introduced 

 a great many of his own varieties under his owr 

 names and they more or less parallel introductions 

 of other people. At the same time there are dis- 

 tinct types and well recognized varieties in those 

 types that are standards and in the selection that 

 I now give I have followed very largely my own 

 judgments from the experience of a good many 

 years with all the varieties of the principal types: 

 but I believe these include all those that are really 

 most worth growing. The main groups and divi- 

 sions of the China aster family are given on page 

 83 of this number of The Garden Magazine. 



In the present place I consider the varieties in 

 their period of flowering. The earliest to flower 

 are the Express Comet varieties. All the Comet 

 types have extremely elegant and graceful flowers 

 of large size, resembling the feathery Japanese 

 chrysanthemum. The height of this variety 

 averages about twelve to fifteen inches. 



The next in season of blooming is Queen of the 

 Market, of spreading habit and very free flowering, 

 the flattish shaped flowers being of good size and 

 produced on long stems, excellent for cut flower 

 purposes. Following these are the beautiful 

 American raised Comet-like varieties White Fleece 



A single plant of the Daybreak type of Globe aster 

 (Pink Beauty), showing the great profusion of bloom 



and Lavender Gem, the former having a very 

 branching habit and light feathery blossoms which 

 often average five inches in diameter. They grow 

 about eighteen inches high. 



Following these in season come the beautiful 

 Daybreak, or Purity class, also Truffaut's Paeony- 

 flowered Perfection, and Victoria. The Day- 

 break type is of American origin and now includes 

 a number of very fine varieties, the plants being 

 of upright and bushy growth, averaging eighteen 

 inches in height and so free flowering that the 

 plants become perfectly smothered with flowers 

 two and one half to three inches in diameter, 

 which have broad, smooth petals slightly in- 

 curved. Among the best of these are Daybreak 

 a very pale pink; Purity, pure white; Pink Beauty, 

 soft shell pink; Lavender Daybreak, pale lavender; 

 Sunset, bright pink; Salmon King, rich salmon- 

 pink; and Lemon Drop (Yellow Daybreak), lemon 

 approaching yellow. 



The Victoria and Paeony-flowered types growing 

 eighteen inches high, are also of upright habit, 



