January Contents
| PAGE | |
| 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 |
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