THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



APRIL 1st, 1843. 



PART I. 



EMBELLISHMENTS. 



ARTICLE I. 



No. 1.— PHLOX.— (Far. Fan Houtle's.) 



POI.EMON1AC2EA. PKNTANURIA. MONOGYNIA. 



This very beautiful variety of Phlox we received from M. Louis van 

 Houtte, Nurseryman, of Ghent; and although the entire^ family of 

 Phloxes deserve a place in every flower garden, this variety has 

 especial recommendations, and is one of the handsomest border 

 perennials grown. 



The whole tribe of Phloxes have an especial claim to cultivation ; 

 they are, almost without exception, perfectly hardy, of easy culture } 

 readily propagated, profuse in blooming, of great variety and beauty 

 in colours, and of long endurance as an ornament to the flower 

 garden. An additional inducement too is, they can be obtained at a 

 very low cost, from 6s. per dozen. 



The diversity of height to which the kinds grow renders them 

 equally adapted for growing in masses, or singly in the flower-bed ; 

 when in masses, they can be arranged so as the tallest being in the 

 centre a gradual declination can be arranged from the height of three 

 or four feet if desired, down to prostrate kinds whose flowers are but 

 two inches from the ground. In a good strong turfy loam well en- 

 riched with rotten dung, or leaf mould, upon a dry subsoil, Phloxes 

 grow vigorously. As the roots generally admit of. division each 

 season, an increase of young plants should be made every spring, by 

 which means vigorous plants will be obtained and the sorts preserved. 

 We possess nearly all the kinds of Phloxes, and in the blooming 

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