THE MICHAELMAS DAISY AS A GARDEN PLANT. 



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section there is A. Dmmmondii. Then come the mass of 

 Michaelmas Daisies from five to three feet high. Many of the 

 best of these are classed amongst A. Novi-Belgii, and are variable 



Fig. 5 — .Aster ptaemicoides. (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 

 (The magnified figures represent (1) the margin of a leaf, (2) echinate pollen 

 grains, and (3) a ray-floret with pappus.) 



in colour as well as in height; A. turbinellus in its best form 

 is excellent, and what is now classed as the type of A. Icevis, 

 with larger leaves and smaller flowers, has hitherto been mixed 



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