Dnimmond Phlox. 



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Chanioise-rose is a novelty of last year, but is of no account : the color 

 is of russet leather, shaded with rose, and will not add much brilliancy to 

 the flower-border. 



For massing in separate colors, it is not surpassed by any other bedding- 

 plant : it continues long in bloom. To have a solid mass of flowers, the 

 plants should be put out about six inches apart. The seed should not be 

 sown in the greenhouse or hot-bed too early, as I have done sometimes, to 

 my sorrow, as the plants get drawn up, grow stragglingly, and never recover 

 from that habit, and by the middle of z\ugust the bloom is nearly over. 

 It is in season to sow the seeds in the greenhouse or hot-bed the last of 

 March or beginning of April. When of sufficient size, the seedlings should 

 be transplanted into boxes : by the last of May, they may be planted out. 

 Such plants will be more compact and stocky than those of the former de- 

 scription, and will continue longer in bloom, although they will not come 

 into flower quite so soon. 



Seeds sown late in autumn in the open ground will be in advance of 

 those sown the first of May by one or two weeks. Seed sown where the 

 plants are to remain will continue in flower until frost ; and this is un- 

 doubtedly the best way to grow. Plants succeed in any good rich garden- 

 soil, if not too heavy and wet. 



Foreign florists and seedsmen are annually getting up some kind of 

 novelty, in which the amateur florist, and lover of flowers, sometimes get 

 sadly disappointed. Thinking, by the description set forth in the catalogues, 

 that they are about to be astonished by some marvellous, new, and star- 

 tling floral production, they are not unfrequently as much surprised at the 

 result as the savans were when the mountain in labor brought forth a 

 mouse. 



The seedsmen on this side of the Atlantic are considered "old fogies," and 

 behind the times, if they do not have all these expensive foreign novelties 

 wherewith to answer the calls of a certain class of customers who are 

 always after something new. The Yellow Drummond Phlox is a sample 

 of the numerous disappointments which are known to florists. The novelty 

 of this spring was described as follows in a Prussian catalogue : — 



'■'• Fhlox Drujnmondii Heynholdi. — The new true scarlet Phlox (Penary). 

 There is already in our gardens a bright variety of much value, known 



