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Decora. Pure white, with dark-red eye. 



Admiral de Leon. Light-red, with dark-red eye, (fine). 



Afro purpurea. Purple-red. 



Virgilia,. Dark-red, (very fine). 



Grand Sultan. Large white flowers, with light-purple eyu. 



Madame Lierval. White, with delicate lilac eye, (fine). 



Rosa supcrba. Dwarf, fine clear rose. 



Ne plus ultra. Pink, with deep-red eye. 



Maryanne. White, striped with purple. 



From my own raising, out of more than one thousand plants : 



America. Blush, with peach-bloom centre, (fine). 



Mrs. Webster. Large white flower, in dense corymbs, (very 



fine). 



Mrs. Breck. Red, with deep-red eye. 

 Breck's Perfection. White, striped with red, red eye. 

 Breckii. r- Light-purple, with white eye, (very late). 

 Snowftake. Pure white, in dense heads. 

 Variegata. White, mottled with purple. 

 Grandijlora nova. Rose and white shaded, (very fine). 



These varieties named constitute but a small portion of Phloxes 

 DOW in my garden; after rejecting everything inferior, I found 

 over one hundred named or numbered sorts worthy of cultivation, 

 and which I intend to reduce to fifty of the very best in another 

 season. I had also about twenty newly-imported varieties, that had 

 not flowered, or were so weak as not to give their true character. 



Phlox Drummondii. This beautiful annual is also given to 

 sporting. If some of its brilliancy could be given to the peren- 

 nial sorts, by hybridization, it would give a finishing touch to 

 many of the improved varieties. The Drummond Phlox is found 

 in varieties of pure white ; red with white eye, or occulata ; Prince 

 Leopold ; dark-crimson, purple, &c. 



RUDBECKIA A M PLEXIC A ULIS. 



An herbaceous annual plant from South America, grows from 

 three to three and a half feet high ; straight, branching stems ; 



