. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. COMPOSITE FAMILY the type branched long ago and has varied into both dwarf and standard forms. Botanically, the genus is an endless confusion; horticulturally, the genus is an endless delight. How long the Aster had been cultivated in China befQre it came into Europe we do not know, bjit it is that it iiS-s been a garden plant for ages. ,- " -'ASTER Asler. f\ , Name is Greek for star; referring to the radiate heads of the flowers. Perennial herbs, with e
. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. COMPOSITE FAMILY the type branched long ago and has varied into both dwarf and standard forms. Botanically, the genus is an endless confusion; horticulturally, the genus is an endless delight. How long the Aster had been cultivated in China befQre it came into Europe we do not know, bjit it is that it iiS-s been a garden plant for ages. ,- " -'ASTER Asler. f\ , Name is Greek for star; referring to the radiate heads of the flowers. Perennial herbs, with erect branching stems and starry flowers; the species freely hybridizing. Flower-heads.—Radiate; rays white, purple, lavender, blue, or pink; the disk- florets yellow, often changing to purple. Involucre-bracts:^—More or • less imbri- cated, usually with leaf-like tips. Receptacle.—Flat, alveolate. Pappus.—Simple; of capillary bristles; akenes more or less flattened. The glories of color, of size, and of petalage, that lie undeveloped in our native Asters, it has not as yet entered into the heart of florist or gardener even to conceive. To do nothing more than transfer them from the hard conditions of the fields„to relieve their fifercc; strug- gle for wfistence, to anticipate their Aster. Asler ericoides nccd^&d to supply their wants, gives them a chance to increase in height, to multiply their stars, to double their rays; ^ in short to indicate what careful cultivation might accomplish. The wealth of the fields has impoverished the garden. One species, Nova Anglim, has been in general cultivation for rather more than a decade. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Keeler, Harriet L. (Harriet Louise), 1846-1921. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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