THE FLOWER VASE. 9 
ASTER. 
Aster. Class 19. —Order 2. Starwort. 
This is one of the most common of American wild 
flowers, and has almost every variety of color. The genus 
consists of more than one hundred species; of which none 
is prettier than the purple woodraster, that blooms in Sep¬ 
tember and October. 
Beauty in retirement 
Thou, like a star-flower in the wood, 
Thy modest charms art hiding; 
Content with humbly doing good, 
And in God’s love abiding. 
But though the world observes thee not, 
In one fond heart thou ’rt treasured; 
And bright indeed must be the lot 
That shares a love unmeasured. 
