. Armeria (Sea Pink, or Thrift) PER PKT. 1221 Formosa. A very pretty edging plant, bearing rosy- pink flowers; hardy perennial. 1 foot $0 15 Arctotis Grandis Aubrietia (Rainbow Rock Cress) 1490 Large-flowering Hybrids. A beautiful dwarf rock plant, covered with sheets of bright flowers in spring and early summer; 6 inches IS Auricula (PrlmuIa Auricula) 1500 A well-known favorite of great beauty; seed saved from splendid choice mixed varieties; half hardy perennial; 6 inches 25 A Few Cultural Hints on the Growing of Asters Asters will thrive in any good soil, prepared in the same way as you wou
. Armeria (Sea Pink, or Thrift) PER PKT. 1221 Formosa. A very pretty edging plant, bearing rosy- pink flowers; hardy perennial. 1 foot $0 15 Arctotis Grandis Aubrietia (Rainbow Rock Cress) 1490 Large-flowering Hybrids. A beautiful dwarf rock plant, covered with sheets of bright flowers in spring and early summer; 6 inches IS Auricula (PrlmuIa Auricula) 1500 A well-known favorite of great beauty; seed saved from splendid choice mixed varieties; half hardy perennial; 6 inches 25 A Few Cultural Hints on the Growing of Asters Asters will thrive in any good soil, prepared in the same way as you would for a crop of vegetables, but it is well to remember that any extra care taken in the preparation of the soil is repaid by finer plants, larger blooms with longer stems and more profuse flowering. Tliey should have an open, sunny position, and prefer a good, heavy, loamy soil, enriched with a liberal quantity of bone meal or other good commercial fertilizer; and the addition of wood ashes or air-slacked lime, and should not be grown on the same ground year after year; it is better to change each season. For early flowering the seed should be started in the house, hotbed or cold- frame in April, transferring them to their flowering quarters as soon as danger from frost is past. For August and later flowering it is just as well to sow j;, Ihem in the open in May, preferably in a prepared seed bed, transplanting them when two or three inches high to where they are to bloom, although they may be sown where they are to flower with equally as good results. \ The main essentials to insure fine Asters are a new rich soil, frequent cultivation, no check to their growth from start to finish and ample room to develop. When wanted for cutting with long stems, they should be set out not closer than twelve inches apart in the rows and two feet between the rows. When wanted for mass effects in beds they may be planted nine inches to a foot apart each way. Asters are sometimes attacked by a
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