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umbel, and from the country from whence we 

 procured them. 



Few plants present us with a more agreeable 

 bouquet than is displayed on the stalks of some 

 kinds of Phlox, some of which have their corol- 

 las of a beautiful lilac lightly tinged with rose, 

 some of an ardent red, some of a pure white, 

 and others of a bright purple like a flame, from 

 whence the idea of the name of Flamma or 

 Phlox. 



The Smooth Phlox, Glaberrima, was the first 

 kind cultivated in this country, which Miller 

 seems to have grown in the b\)tanic garden at 

 Chelsea as long back as the year 1725 ; and, 

 although it is now a century since this plant was 

 first introduced, yet it remains rather a rare than 

 a common plant in comparison to many others of 

 less beauty and later introduction. This kind 

 sends up a stalk near twenty inches in height, 

 dividing into three or four small branches towards 

 the top, each terminated by a corymb of flowers 

 that usually appear in June. 



The Shining-leaved Phlox, Stiff ndicosa, which 

 was brought to this country in the year 1813, is 

 a beautiful species, throwing up stalks about 

 two feet in height, from which are displayed 

 corymbs of flowers of a most brilhant violet pur- 

 ple eolour, somewhat resembling a fine cluster 



