. Compliments of the season. Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. s JAMES VieK SEEDSMAN, "ROC-H ESTEK, M. Xo flower is more popular than the Aster, and few have held so high a place in popular esteem for so many years, and it is still growing in favor. Perhaps we can safely say that for an autumn display, it has no successful rival among the Annuals. Give the Aster a deep, rich soil, and mulching with coarse manure is very beneficial, and if extra fine flowers are needed for exhibition or any other purpose, a little liquid manure occasionally wil
. Compliments of the season. Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. s JAMES VieK SEEDSMAN, "ROC-H ESTEK, M. Xo flower is more popular than the Aster, and few have held so high a place in popular esteem for so many years, and it is still growing in favor. Perhaps we can safely say that for an autumn display, it has no successful rival among the Annuals. Give the Aster a deep, rich soil, and mulching with coarse manure is very beneficial, and if extra fine flowers are needed for exhibition or any other purpose, a little liquid manure occasionally will give the most gratifying results. Plants may be grown in the hot-bed, cold-frame, or a seed-bed in the garden, but to obtain good flowers, the Aster plant must be strong and "stock}'.1' A plant that is what the gardeners call "drawn" will never produce very fine flowers. A "drawn" plant is one that, by being crowded in the seed-bed or some other cause, has become tall, slender and weak. The Aster transplants easily. Twelve inches apart is the proper distance for making a showy bed of the large varieties; the dwarf kinds may be set six inches or less. It is not best to have Asters flower too early in the season, and there need be no haste in starting seed in the spring, for the Aster, like the Dahlia, is essentially a fall flower, and the flowers are always the largest and most perfect and enduring m the showery weather and cool, dewy nights of autumn. The tall varieties with large flowers need a little support, or during storms of wind and rain they are often blown down and their beauty destroyed when in full blossom. Set a stake in the ground near the stem, so that its top is only about two-thirds the height of the plant, then fasten the main branches to this stake by meaas of loops, but do not pass the string around the whole plant. With the exception of the new varieties, the classes of Asters are arranged according to height, commencing with the t
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