December, 1909 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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more or less fully in the local papers. We 

 find, as a rule, the societies which are 

 doing the best work are those in which 

 the newspaper men are prominent mem- 

 bers, where they use their ability in this 

 particular to place the work prominently 

 before the public. A strong effort should 

 be made by every society to secure the 

 hearty co-operation and support of the 

 local newspaper men, and where these 

 are not to be depended upon, the secre- 

 tary should see that meetings are duly 



advertised and good reports published. 



One other point I wish to refer to, and 

 that is that every society, particularly the 

 weaker ones, should endeavor to get in 

 touch with what other and stronger so- 

 cieties are doing, by sending one or more 

 delegates to the annual convention of the 

 Ontario Horticultural Association that 

 they may take note of what is being done 

 elsewhere, and be in a better position to 

 help on the work in their own communi- 

 ty when they return. 



List of Best Phloxes 



AT the convention of the Ontario 

 Horticultural Association in Tor- 

 onto, in November, the committee 

 on plant nomenclature made the follow- 

 ing report: 'The members of the com- 

 mittee are gratified to learn that within 

 the past year a movement has been in- 

 augurated in one or more of the colleges 

 of higher learning in this country to give 

 horticulture a place in the curricula of 

 these institutions. This movement is 

 still in its incipient stage. Your commit- 

 tee recommends the rhovement as one de- 

 serving of all the encouragement that 

 can be given to it by this association. 

 It is hoped that the day is not far dis- 

 tant when it will be generally recognized 

 that to know the principal economic 

 and ornamental plants suitable for growth 

 in this country — to know them not only 

 as to their genera and species, but to 

 know the important varieties accurately 

 by name, including the correct spelling 

 and pronunciation of the names, and 

 also to know the chief characteristics 

 that distinguish one variety from an- 

 other, — is an essential part of a liberal 

 education. This feature of education if 

 it be intelligently promoted and liberally 

 supported must assuredly have the effect 

 of adding much to the pleasure and hap- 

 piness of the people of our country. 

 "The efforts of your committee in the 

 past year have been confined chiefly to 

 the completion of the lists of four flowers, 

 viz., perennial phlox, dahlia, gladiolus 

 and iris, — referred to in last year's re- 

 port as being incomplete. It is hoped 

 that these lists will be helpful to the 

 members of the horticultural societies, 

 and the publication of them will lead to 

 a large increase in the planting of these 

 important flowers." 



PHLOX PANIOULATA fDECUSSATA) 



Antonin Mercie. — Height 3 i^ feet ; 

 flowers, bright violet suffused with white, 

 large, white centre. 



Argon. — Height, 2 feet, 9 inches ; flow- 

 ers, lilac pink suffused with white with 

 narrow rosy ring about centre. 



Berenice.— Height, 31^ feet; flowers, 

 pure white. 



Cameron.— Height, 3 feet; flowers, 

 pure white with bright purplish red cen- 

 tre. 



Capt. Wilhelmy. — Flowers, Tyrian 

 rose. 



Consul H. Trost. — Flowers, pure red 

 with French purple centre. 



Coquelicot. — Height, 21^ feet; flowers, 

 orange scarlet with purplish centre. 



D. Bois.- — -Height, 2>^ feet; flowers, 

 bright rose magenta. 



Daniel Lesueur. — Height, 3 feet ; flow- 

 ers, bright violet and white. 



Eclaireur. — Height, 2^^ to 3 feet; 

 flowers, bright rose magenta shading 

 lighter. 



Etna.— Height, 2 feet 8 inches ; flow- 

 ers, bright crimson red with darker cen- 

 tre. 



Faust. — Height, 3 feet to 3>^ feet; 

 flowers, pure white with large mauve 

 centre. 



Fiancee. — Height, 3 feet; flowers, 

 white. 



Jocelyn.— Height, 2 feet to 3 inches; 

 flowers, crimson carmine shading paler. 



Lamartine. — Height, 3 to 3}^ feet; 

 flowers, bright violet with large white 

 centre. 



Le Cygne.— Height, 3^ to 4 feet; 

 flowers, creamy white. 



Mounet-Sully. — Flowers, old carmine 

 red with crimson carmine centre. 



Pantheon.— Height, 2 to 2 '4 feet; 



flowers, crimson pink suffused white 

 about centre. 



Pyramide. — Height, 3 to 2% feet; 

 flowers, pure white. 



Selma. — Flowers, lilac rose with con- 

 spicuous crimson eye. 



Sir Richard Wallace. — Height, 2^2 

 feet ; flowers, pure white with rosy ma- 

 genta centre. 



Tapis Blanc. — Height, 3 feet ; flowers, 

 crimson pink suffused with white. 



Tragedie. — Flowers, carmine with 

 darker centre. 



Wm. Robinson. — Height, 3^ feet; 

 flowers, violet rose suffused with white, 

 darker centre. 



PHLOX GLABEERIMA (8UFPEUTI0OSA) 



Beauty of Edinburgh. — Height, 2 feet ; 

 flowers, white shaded with light lilac. 



Burns. — Height, 2 feet ; flowers, rosy 

 purple. 



Clouded Gem. — Height, 2 feet ; flow- 

 ers, white shaded with rosy purple. 



Forerunner.- — Height, 3 feet to 3}^ 

 feet; flowers, creamy white. 



Snowden. — Height, 21^2 feet; flowers, 

 pure white, rose centre. 



Miss Lingard. — Flowers, white with 

 lilac eye. 



EAELT BLOOMING PHLOXES 



P. amoena, Simms. — North America; 

 height, 5 to 6 inches ; flowers, bright 

 rosy pink. 



P. divaricata, L. (Wild Sweet Wil- 

 liam). — North America; height, 6 to 12 

 inches ; flowers, lilac to mauve. 



P. ovata, L. (Syn. P. Carolina, L.) — 

 North America; height, 12 to 14 inches; 

 flowers, deep pink. 



P. subulata atropurpurea. — Height, 6 

 to 8 inches ; flowers, purplish rose. 



P. subulata Newry Seedling. — Height, 

 6 to 8 inches; flowers, lilac, paler to- 

 wards centre. 



P. subulata verna. — Height, 6 inches; 

 flowers, deep rose. 



Summer Hon>e and Pergolat, with Children at work in one of the School Gardens of Cleveland, Ohio. 



This school was referred to "by Miss Louise 

 land. In one of her addresses before the conven 

 Toronto last month. See report of convention 



Kloiii Miller, Curator of School Gardens, Oleve- 

 ition of the Ontario Horticultural Association in 

 on page 277. 



