. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. STOCK. TEN WEEKS iKi. v;ir. '.â II I' 'III. STOCK, VIEGINIAN. M-ilcnna STOKES' ASTEK. ^^l- sI"Icl.^I., l7ri,VlS::], ,'- li^h botanist). Coi>ij>/'sil'i . Stokls" A-tkk is <au' r)i which at lirst ^hiiice has poijds in L-'uniiM'ii with iMiina astors, L-euiaurras and chicory. The hoads
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. STOCK. TEN WEEKS iKi. v;ir. '.â II I' 'III. STOCK, VIEGINIAN. M-ilcnna STOKES' ASTEK. ^^l- sI"Icl.^I., l7ri,VlS::], ,'- li^h botanist). Coi>ij>/'sil'i . Stokls" A-tkk is <au' r)i which at lirst ^hiiice has poijds in L-'uniiM'ii with iMiina astors, L-euiaurras and chicory. The hoads are -i oi 4 in. across in cultiviiti^ut. The marginal row of H'lwrrs is ^-d vt about 15 ray-like corollas. ^Yhich have a vt-ry short tube at the base anil an' iiiu''h broadened at tlie and cut into .3 lon^, narrow striiis. Stokes' Aster is liardy as far north as , K. Y,. and Boston, ^Mn'^s. I'robaldy many persons have been deterred from tr} ini,^ ir because it is ualivc only to South Carolina and l-eor^ia, and because it is wn- sidt-red a greenhouse subject in some standard works on gardening. The fact that it is found wild in wet pine barrens is also deceptive, for the w^'ls, as Woolsou and Keller testify, will decay if water stands ou the soil in winter. Moreover, the plant has been praised by Meehan for its drought-resisting qualities. Stokes' Aster should be planted in a well-drained, sandy loaiu, not in cold and heavy clay. It blooms from August until hard frost. According to Chapman, the heads of wild specimens are only an inch across, but the size of heads in cultivated plants is stated by nuiny h'.irti- cultural experts to be 3-4 in. across. J. I->. Keller writes that Stokes' Aster is frehicre subgk'bose; outer bracts prolonged into a large, leafy, bristly-fringed ap- pendage : akene iiâ4-angled. smooth: pappus vt 4-5 thread-like, deciduous scales. cyanea, L'T-Ierit. Stokes' Asteij. Fig. 2403. Much- branched, hardy perennial herb, 1-2 ft. hi
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