GROWN Al? CHIBWICK lif 1861. Sll 



otherwise it should be fiilly exposed to all the air and suiisbine. 

 The soil should be enriched with some good rotten manure ; and 

 when the plants get strong they should be liberally watered with 

 liquid manure. The plants should be planted about 15 inches 

 apart for the first season's blooming, \vhich will commence about 

 August, aiid continue till the end of September. But in th^ 

 December following they should be replanted, placing them 18 

 or 20 inches apart for the second year's blooming ; this will begin 

 in July, and if the plants are prevented from seeding they will go 

 on flowering till the end of September. Care should be taken to 

 hare a good stake to each plant ; and as the shoots advance id. 

 growth they should be securely tied to it* If this is neglected 

 they ai*e very likely to be snapped off close to the ground. A 

 slight wind is sufficient to do this, and then the plant is spoiled 

 for the season. 



If a Phlox is well matlaged it will be in its prime in the second 

 year of its flowering. Early in the spring wlien the shoots are 

 three or four inches long, it is a good plan to* thin them out. A 

 good two-year-old plant will generally start more shoots than are 

 Required, but live or sil only should be left to go up for flower- 

 ing. The spare shoots riiake excellent (^uttingSj but they can 

 seldom be rooted early enoUgb to flower the same year^ like those 

 obtained from plants put intd a gi^een-boUse in J^ebruary. How- 

 ever, the plants obtained from these cuttings make fine flowering 



plants for the tiext year. 



There cannot be mucti done in arf^nging these Phloxes 

 accoi^ding to their height ; indeed, in this respect, there is very 

 little difference. The flrstyear they generally flower when about 

 I5 or 18 inches high, but the same plants in the second year 

 Ivill grow 2 or 3 feet high. 



A continual succession of yoUng plants should be kept up by 

 cuttings, dividing the old roots is a clumsy method of increas- 

 ing the stock, and plants obtained in this way seldom produce 

 fine healthy foliage and good flowers. A Phlox should h6 

 thrown away when it gets over two years old, and a young plant 

 put in its place. Sometimes Phloxes may be placed here and 

 there in mi^ed borders or shrubberies, where they help to makes 

 a garden gay, and furnish a supply of cut flowers ; but the spare 

 plants only ought to be used for this purpose, as they never 

 under this treatment produce sucib fine flowers as when they have 

 a place to themselves: 



Phloxes may be easily grown in pots hy attending to the samo 



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