Plate 4t52. 



PHLOX— MRS. DOMBRAIN AND 

 DR. MASTERS. 



There are few of our herbaceous plants more showy in the 

 garden, or more effective as pot phints, than the tall flowering 

 varieties of Phlox ; succeeding as they do in any good garden 

 soil, they exhibit their large heads of bloom during the late 

 summer and early autumn months in great profusion, and 

 when grown in a sheltered position, continue a long period in 

 flower. 



M. Lievi-al, of Paris, was one of the most successful raisers 

 of this flower ; he is unhappily one of the victims of the 

 late war, and we do not know whether his representatives will 

 continue their cultivation, but Messrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing 

 have most successfully taken np the flower ; they have pro- 

 duced many new vai'ieties, and amongst them those which we 



now figure. 



Mrs. Dombrain (fig. 1) is a pure white flower of large size, 

 with a purplish-like centre. The heads of bloom (of which we 

 are enabled only to give a small portion) are very large. Dr. 

 Masters (fig. 2) is another fine flower, of a rosy magenta hue, 

 with dark brown centre ; it also has very large heads of bloom ; 

 when exhibited at Kensington in August, both these flowers 

 were greatly and deservedly admired. They will be let out in 

 the spring, with some other fine varieties. 



