THE MICHAELMAS DAISY AS A GARDEN PLANT. 



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my garden where neither Pyrethrums nor Delphiniums nor Asters 

 wrill nourish as perennials unless the slugs are checked by 

 dressing the crowns with lime and soot in autumn. 



Some of these Asters are liable to a disease which also spoils 

 many perennial Sunflowers and Eudbeckias. Half or all the 

 plant suddenly withers when in flower. It may be due to hot 



Fig. 7. — Aster Amellus bessarabicus. (From the Dictionary of Gardening.) 



sun following heavy rain, and I call it sunstroke for want of a 

 better name. A. cordifolius is often killed by it, except when 

 planted in shade. 



As for the future of the Michaelmas Daisy, it will be gathered 

 from what has been said that the best of them have probably 

 been produced by development in English gardens ; the way to 



