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have shown symptoms of this trouble, I 
have sprinkled wood-ashes over the soil 
around them, but sparingly, for they were 
mere infants, and have checked the mortal¬ 
ity, even when I could not save all. 
Flowers of sulphur is another specific for 
the minute fungus which causes damping 
off. It should be dug in around the little 
plants, using only a small quantity at a 
time. • 
Personally I prefer the late sowing. 
In open ground, asters may be sown as 
late as the last week of May or the first 
of June. The seed germinates easily, usu¬ 
ally in from five to seven days, but often 
in less time. Unless the weather is very 
warm and dry, asters may be sown up to 
the first of June; and they will then bloom 
in September, after the aster-beetle has 
paid its annual visit. This, at least, is my 
experience. I am, of course, speaking of 
varieties whose season of bloom is August. 
Some Peony Perfection asters sown one 
year on June the first were in blossom as 
late as the first week of October, and flow¬ 
ered without molestation. 
The late branching sort are, in my opin¬ 
ion, a most desirable kind, not only on ac¬ 
count of beauty of form and coloring, but 
because they bloom in September, when 
the aster beetle has ceased from troubling, 
and when most of the flowers have lived 
out their little day of life. 
I have recently seen recommended a 
solution of arsenate of lead-paste in water 
—one tablespoonful, slightly rounded, to 
one gallon of water —to be used as a spray 
for the combating of this, the aster’s most 
troublesome pest. Lead arsenate may now 
be bought in comparatively small quanti¬ 
ties at a first-class seedsman’s. How it 
affects the digestive apparatus of the aster- 
beetle, I am not qualified to state; but I 
can testify that it is deadly to caterpillars. 
Although there is almost an infinite vari¬ 
ety of form, the classification made by 
Professor Bailey may simplify the matter 
of judging varieties, even though to-day 
some of these divisions are combined: 
I—A flower with flat strap-shaped rays 
loosely bound — 
a. Rays incurved or ball shaped, 
b. Spreading or reflex. 
II —Tubular or quilled asters, in which all 
but the outer ray of florets have 
tubular corollas — 
a. The inner florets short, the outer 
flat and longer, 
b. All the florets elongated or 
quilled. 
The Comet type, a variety embraced in 
Section I, is very popular, and is obtained 
in great size and various forms. Its rays 
are flat and curled at the end, and some are 
twisted beautifully, like the chrysanthe¬ 
mum. The branching type, when used in 
catalogs, refers to the form of the plant, 
which grows almost like a wide-spreading 
bush two to two and a half feet tall. Most 
of the branching type of asters are late 
flowering. Both this sort and the Comet 
are now to be had in a dwarf form 
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