THE. 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



OCTOBER 1st, 1837. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. 

 ON THE CULTURE OF PHLOX DRUMMONDII. 



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clergyman's daughter, in surrey. 



The flowers of the whole tribe of Phloxes are beautiful, and in 

 general admiration, they are highly ornamental to a flower garden, 

 and merit a place in every one. Nearly eveiy species is of a 

 desirable height for it, growing from one to two feet and a half 

 high. The plants are of easy culture, and to be obtained at a 

 trifling price. These facts induce me to offer some observations 

 upon the culture, &c. of the whole genus, having in my possession 

 every species and variety I have hitherto heard of. 



During the present summer I have been quite delighted with 

 that most charming, newly introduced kind, Phlox Drummondii, 

 and its varieties. In 1836 I procured a plant of the original kind 

 and kept it in a pot through winter ; early in May I procured 

 small plants, eight or ten inches high, of several hybrids, and 

 immediately turned them out into a bed. The hybrid varieties 

 were venustum, a most beautiful rose colour, having a dark cen- 

 tre ; formosum, lilac, dark red eye, very large, round flower ; 

 pulchellum, very dark velvet crimson, black centre, round flower; 

 bellissima, lilac with very large, crimson eye ; spcciosa, very dark 

 velvet crimson, rather star shaped, darker centre ; carnescens, a 

 light rosy-pink. The original kind is of a rosy-red with a small 



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