ASTERS AND GOLDEN-ROD. 
Asters and golden-rod blossom in the fall. Then the 
country roads are lovely to walk over, and the fields 
are as bright as can be with blue 
or purple or white asters and yellow 
golden-rod. 
Some kinds of golden-rod and 
asters blossom in the summer, but 
most of them wait until late in the 
season. They are almost the last 
flowers to come and almost the last 
to go. 
When their bright flowers fade 
they are still pretty. Each '" flower" 
of the asters is like the dandelion, 
a cluster of very small flowers, and 
the golden-rod flower head is made 
up of very many tiny flowers. 
Each little flower has its own 
akene and plume quite like the 
dandelion, but a great deal smaller, and in time the 
clusters that were flowers become clusters of soft 
downy plumes. 
This state does not last long, for the akenes are blown 
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Asters. 
