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BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS 



Mrs. W. Sinclair, blue 



and yellow. 

 Madge Montgomery, claret 



and cream. 



Nellie Curson, yellow, 

 mauve, and brown. 



Niel Mackay, black and 

 yellow. 



Robert M'Caughie, yellow, 

 rose, and violet. 



Wm. M'Kenzie, violet and 

 yellow. 



Phloxes. Average height of perennial border species under good 

 cultivation, three feet; flowering season, late spring and summer. 

 Average height of annual section, one foot ; flowering season, 

 summer. 



The Phloxes are a most beautiful and valuable class of garden 

 flowers. The perennial species are hardy, the annuals not quite 



hardy. The former class might 

 be subdivided into border and 

 rock Phloxes. The former grow 

 to medium height, the latter 

 are quite dwarf. The perennial 

 border Phloxes bear their flowers 

 in bunches at the summit of 

 slender stems clothed with nar- 

 row, lance-shaped leaves. They 

 are of upright, compact habit, yet 

 not stiff. In some of the finest 

 modern varieties the flower heads 

 are of great size almost as big as 

 Hydrangeas, in fact. The colours 

 are very beautiful. Though bright, they are not gaudy, but, on 

 the contrary, are soft and refined. There are no more beautiful 

 border flowers than the hardy herbaceous Phloxes, and no border 

 can be considered complete without them. They appear in more 

 than one of our plates. In association with Tobacco plants 

 (Nicotiana affinis), with Japanese Anemones and Sweet Peas (the 

 latter, by the way, affords a particularly fine example of the 

 importance of studying the grouping of flowers), or with Asters 

 and Sweet Peas, they are extremely useful and beautiful. These 

 Phloxes are propagated by division and by root cuttings, 



STAKING PLANTS 



A, how to stake single plants ; B, wrong way to stake 

 plants with several stems ; C, right way to stake 

 such plants. 



