The Kernel sent me a telliegraff that he would be at the aster House such a day, and I agreed to meet him there.
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith
A bunch of purple aster, golden-rod Darkened by the first frost, a drooping spray Of scarlet barberry, and tall and gray The silk-cored cotton with its bursting pod, Some tarnished maple-boughs, and, like a flash Of sudden flame, a branch of mountain ash.
"A Woman's Love Letters"
Sophie M. Almon-Hensley
It is certainly compounded of aster, which, among many nations, signified a star.
"A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)"
Jacob Bryant