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riety. Corolla round ; flowers in compact 

 pyramidal corymbs. Dwarfish in habit ; a 

 foot and a half high. Leaves ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate. August. 



Phlox almerine. — A new variety. Co- 

 lour blush with a white eye ; corolla small, 

 but good shape ; in fine pyramidal panicles. 

 Two feet high. August. 



Phlox nana. — A new dwarf variety, with 

 small red starry flowers in large dense co- 

 rymbs. Too inferior to cultivate. One foot 

 high. August. 



Phlox paniculata. — A distinct species of 

 long standing — an old acquaintance which 

 we feel unwilling to discard, notwithstand- 

 ing so many superior varieties have super- 

 seded it. Flowers in compact terminal pa- 

 nicles, head inclining to one side ; corolla 

 large but irregular shaped ; colour fine pink. 

 Leaves lanceolate,, flat, margins rough. 

 Four feet high. August. 



Phlox charles. — A fine new white vari- 

 ety, with pink eye. Corolla fine shape. 

 Flower in pyramidal corymbs. Dwarf ha- 

 bit ; one foot and a half high. August. 



Phlox undulata. — One of the latest spe- 

 cies, a native of the south. Stem erect, 

 smooth, three feet high; flowers red, fre- 

 quently changing to white, as the nights 

 become frosty. Leaves lance-oblong, slight- 



ly undulated. In short seasons, it hardly 

 develops its flowers, but is perfectly hardy. 

 September and October. 



The numerous varieties we have thus 

 noticed, have been described from specimens 

 in our own collection. We have also quite 

 a number of beautiful new varieties, which, 

 on account of a kind of blight that has at- 

 tacked them, have not developed them- 

 selves this season. We shall not attempt 

 to describe what we have seen imper- 

 fectly. Messrs. Walker, Hoveys, War- 

 ren, and other florists, have severally pro- 

 duced fine seedlings that have been exhibi- 

 ted, but no particular descriptions given. 

 The writer has also a number of superior 

 varieties of his own raising, an account of 

 some of the best of which may be given 

 hereafter. 



This chapter on Phloxes has already been 

 extended too long, not only for your readers 

 but also for myself. I came near forgetting 

 a magnificent specimen of a new variety 

 exhibited by the President of the Horticul- 

 tural Society, at our rooms on Saturday last. 

 It is an eyed variety of great beauty ; corolla 

 large, white, with a large brilliant purple eye, 

 called Phlox (zeil de lynx, or lynx-eyed. Wc 

 are not acquainted with its particular habits^ 



Jos. Breck. 



REMARKS ON HEDGES. 

 BY WM. R. PRINCE, FLUSHING, L. I. 



From various considerations the public at- 

 tention has been of late years called to the 

 formation of fences composed of living trees 

 or shrubs, and I therefore venture some 

 comments on this subject. 



In Europe, where the forests are of limi- 

 ted extent, in comparison with the de«iands 

 made upon them for building houses, ships, 



&c., a great degree of economy is necessa- 

 rily exercised in their use and preservation. 

 For this reason, forest trees are there but 

 little used for fencing ; and ditches, em- 

 bankments, and live fences, have been 

 adopted for the formation of lines of sub- 

 division between fields and estates, and for 

 the boundaries of roads, &c. 



