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Updated: June 24, 2025
Everywhere the grass was vivid with a many-coloured tissue of dew-dropped flowers: pale crocuses, and the bright crimson-lake carnation, and monk's-hood, and crane's-bill, and aster alpinus, and the lovely myosotis, and thousands of yellow and purple flowers, nameless or lovelier than their names, were the tapestry on which they trod; and it was interwoven through warp and woof with the blue gleam of a myriad harebells.
'I did not ask him to do so; and since he chooses to adopt this familiar fashion I cannot well rebuke him, papa and he are such friends. 'Then do you permit me to call you Aster? 'O indeed, I wish that you would do it; and all the time. As she said this her eyes brightened. 'Thanks, Aster. I now feel that I am on equal footing with the rest.
There at an open window a young man, with a brush in his hand and another behind his ear, stood up and stretched himself while an older lady deftly rolled up a large map. The barber was turning out the gas in his little saloon; the greengrocer was emerging with a cigarette in his mouth and an aster in his button-hole, and a group of children were escorting the lamplighter on his rounds.
The eupatoriums, with their purple crowns, stood like young trees, with an undergrowth of aster and blue spikes of lobelia, tangled in a golden mesh of dodder. A strong, mature odor, mixed alike of leaves and flowers, and very different from the faint, elusive sweetness of spring, filled the air.
This was not much, but it made the faithful fellow happy. How long it was since the last time his imperial aster had gladdened him by so friendly a sign of satisfaction! Were the days to return when, in the Netherlands, Charles had condescended to treat even humble folk with blunt familiarity?
Then the women came forward and covered the mound with boughs of green, and clusters of flowers, and sprays of bright leaves, and Sydney laid about the whole grave a garland of feathery aster and delicate fern. Through the quiet came a sweet, sonorous voice reading the words of the hymn, "Love's redeeming work is done, Fought the fight, the victory won."
Keep the surface of the soil open that it may take in all the moisture possible. On no account allow it to become crusted over. Seed of perennials can be sown now to furnish plants for flowering next season. Look to the Dahlias, and make sure they are properly staked. Be on the lookout for black beetle on Aster and Chrysanthemum.
I saw many of the American copper with them, these with a more conspicuous white margin to the tiny wings than I have ever seen before, a fall form I fancy rather than anything permanently new in this rather variable insect. All these the first chill of nightfall sends to crevices and with them go the black wasps which have been feeding desperately in the sun on goldenrod and aster.
After he had passed his hands across his temples, as if to clear his understanding, he said, in a voice grown low and calm "There is also upon the table a note to my sister, Aster. That is all I have to say." "Will you not pray with me awhile?" "No; my heart is right; the rest matters not."
Then come the languid poppy and the prim little 4 o'clock, the marigold, the sweet pea, and later the dahlia and the many-tinted chrysanthemum to mark the day's decline. Lastly the goldenrod, the aster and the gentian, tell us it is evening time, and night and frost are close at hand. The rose hour has struck already for '93.
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