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Phlox continued. 



COCCINEA, rich vermilion; extra Bne. COUNTESS OF ROSSLYN, 

 snowy-white, rose eye. DAVID SYME, pure white, tine magenta 

 eye. FLAMBEAU, dazzling amaranth, large flower ; first-rate. 

 GAVIN GREENSHIELDS, crimson, effective. GEiNERAL GORDON, 

 light rosy-peach ; very fine. GEORGE COUPAR, rich crimson self ; 

 fine form. GEORGE GOODFELLOW, deep 

 rosy-crimson, with bright crimson eye ; 

 very large. GRAHAM McCuLLOCH, rich 

 vermilion. HENRY CANNELL, mauve, rose 

 centre ; large and well formed. JAMES 

 ALEXANDER, rich crimson self. JAMES 

 COCKER, pure white, scarlet eye; fine. 

 JAMES GRIEVE, crimson self, very bright, 

 large flower and inflorescence. JANE 

 WELSH, white, crimson eye ; fine. JOHN 

 FORBES, pink, dark crimson eye; large 

 and good. JOHN HAMPTON, amaranth, 

 large dense inflorescence. LOTHAIR, sal- 

 mon-scarlet, dwarf ; extra fine. MALCOLM 

 DUNN, bright crimson, magenta eye ; com- 

 pact. MATTHEW MILLER, rich crimson 

 self ; dwarf. MRS. KEYNES, pure white ; 

 large and well formed, of great substance. 

 MRS. LAING, soft rosy-lilac ; dwarf, com- 

 pact habit. MRS. SANDERSON, mauve, 

 rose centre, large floret and inflorescence ; 

 extra. MRS. T. SPEEDY, white, shaded 

 rose ; distinct. OVID, white, shaded pur- 

 ple ; large. PURPLE PRINCE, dark purple, 

 maroon eye; very distinct. ROBERT LAID- 

 LAW, crimson self ; large and fine. SERAPH, 

 white, red eye, neat flower ; fine inflores- 

 cence. THE QUEEN, beautiful white, 

 large ; dwarf habit. THOMAS BOYD, rose- 

 amaranth ; fine form and substance. 

 THOMAS CHISHOLM, pure white ; dwarf, 

 fine. TOM WELSH, bright red, compact, 



novel shade ; first-rate. TRIOMPHE DU PARC DE NEUILLY, brilliant 

 red ; fine form. T. S. WARE, lilac, bluish centre ; very distinct. 

 VESUVIUS, bright crimson-scarlet, dark crimson eye. WHITE LADY, 

 pure white ; very fine and distinct. WM. VEITCH, white, shaded 

 rose, dark crimson eye ; one of the best. 



PHCENICEUS. 



scarlet or carmine. 



Deep red, with an admixture of 



PHCENICOPHORIUM SECHELLARUM. A 

 synonym of Stevensonia grandifolia (which see). 



Fio. 118. PHOSNIX DACTYLIFERA. 



FIG. 119. PH02NIX RECLINATA. 



PHOENIX (the old Greek name of the tree, used by 

 Theophrastus). Date Palm. STNS. Elate, Fulchironia, 

 Phoniphora. OBD. Palmes. A genus comprising about 

 a dozen species of stove or greenhouse palms, natives 

 of tropical and sub -tropical Asia and Africa. Flowers 

 yellow, mediocre ; spikes growing out from amongst the 

 leaves, and bearing flowers of one sex only, the two 

 sexes being upon different trees. Both kinds have a 

 cup-shaped, three-toothed calyx, and a corolla of three 

 petals, with their edges valvate in the male, and over- 

 lapping in the female; the former containing usually 

 six (very rarely three or nine) stamens, with hardly any 

 filaments, and narrow, erect anthers, and the latter three 

 distinct ovaries, with sessile, hooked stigmas. Only one 

 of the ovaries, however, comes to perfection, and ripens 

 into a one-seeded, fleshy fruit, the seed being composed 

 of horny albumen, with a groove down the front, and 

 the embryo placed at the back. Leaves terminal, 

 spreading and recurved, unequally pinnate ; segments 

 somewhat fascicled or almost equidistant, elongate- 

 lanceolate or ensiform, acuminate, with entire margins. 

 Trunks, when present, usually rising to a great height, 

 and covered thickly with the scars of fallen leaves. 



The species are readily raised from imported seeds, 

 sown in a sandy soil, in a mild hotbed. After the seed- 

 lings have attained a sufficient size, pot off singly into 

 small pots, using the same kind of soil in which the 

 seeds were sown. For later shifts, good turfy loam will 

 be better. In the South of France, many of the species 

 are largely grown in the open air, to supply the demand 

 in Paris, &c., for well-grown specimens for the decoration 

 of apartments. The method pursued is this : the plants 



