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Flower-garden from April to November, but in our 

 gardens they are entirely neglected. By rejecting 

 these and many others, our Flower-gardens are de- 

 prived both of much beauty and interest they might 

 easily possess. These plants delight in light rich soil. 

 GE. odorata, sweet scented ; CE. macrocdrpa ; (E. media ; 

 CE. latiflora; QE. Frazeri; CE. specidsa ; and (E. pdllida ; 

 are all fine native herbaceous plants, mostly with large 

 yellow four-petaled corollas; in bloom from April to 

 September. There are several of them beautiful an- 

 nual and biennial plants. For the finest, see list. 



Phlox, another American genus, and one of the 

 most handsome in cultivation. It consists of elegant 

 border flowers, valuable for flowering early, and more 

 so for blossoming late in autumn. While the majority 

 of plants blooming late in the season are generally 

 syngenesious, with yellow flowers, these delight 

 us with their lively colours of purple, red, and white. 

 A collection of them properly attended to, would of 

 themselves constitute a beautiful flower garden. It 

 will be difficult to state which are the finest, but the 

 following are select varieties : P. paniculdta ; P. acumi- 

 nata ; P. intermedia ; P. odordta ; P. pyramidalis ; with 

 pyramidalis alba, which is splendid; P. suaveolens ; P. 

 reflexa ; P. stolonifera ; P. pilosa ; P. divaricata ; P. niva- 

 lis ; and P. subuldta. In the spring of 1831, an emi- 

 nent British collector* exclaimed, on seeing a patch 

 of P. subuldta in one of the pine barrens of New Jer- 

 sey, " The beauty of that alone is worth coming to 

 America to see, it is so splendid." Most of the spe- 



* Mr. Drummond. 

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