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Title: The Mayflower, January, 1905

Author: Various

Editor: John Lewis Childs

Release Date: September 10, 2009 [EBook #29951]

Language: English

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January Contents

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Editorial Notes 5

=THE ASTER=

_By Lora S. La Mance_

History of the Aster 6

The Modern Aster 6

General Culture of the Aster 7-11

About Seed, 7--Time to Start Asters,
8--Preparing an Aster Bed, 8--Mulching
and Watering, 8--Insect Foes of Asters,
9--Other Cultural Rules, 11

The Aster as a Cut Flower 11

Leading Varieties of Asters 12, 13

The Winter Woods (Poem) 13

The Live Oak (Poem) 13

Information Box 14, 15

Communications 16, 30

ISSUED BY THE =MAYFLOWER PUBLISHING CO.= FLORAL PARK, N.Y.

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[Illustration]

Childs' Giant Cyclamen.

Our new strain of Cyclamen is the finest in the world.
Enormous flowers, delicate colors, superb foliage. Each
bulb produces scores of flowers at once, and each flower
keeps perfect about two months before fading. As easily
grown in a window as a Geranium.

Colors range from dark red to white, delicate blush and
pink shades prevailing. Often flowers will be spotted.

The foliage is very beautiful, being variegated, with different
shades of green, and helps to show off the flowers which
rise above it, to a remarkable degree. In fact, a plant in
bloom always looks like a tastily arranged vase of flowers
and foliage. We offer bulbs for blooming at once, and seed
which soon makes flowering plants.

=BULBS.=

=Giant White=--pure white.
=Giant Carmine=