PERENNIALS 



In mine there must be a couple of thousand. 

 I have a great mass, of probably two hun- 

 dred herbaceous Phloxes, growing together 

 in one corner of my garden, the very tall 

 varieties over four feet high. About the 

 fifteenth of July, every year, this corner is 

 a superb sight. INIost of these plants are 

 over fifteen years old. They have been kept 

 fine by heaviest top-dressing every year, and 

 by lifting all the plants every three years 

 and digging in quantities of manure, and 

 also by separating each plant into three, by 

 cutting the roots with a spade, or pulling 

 apart with the fingers. 



The newer varieties of Phlox come in the 

 most beautiful colours, — dark crimson, fiery 

 scarlet, many shades of pink, pink striped 

 with white, and pink with a white eye; all 

 shades of lilac, lilac with white and purple, 

 the beautiful pure white, and the white with 

 the scarlet eye. Of all the varieties, my 

 favorites are the snowy white, and the 

 salmon -pink with the dark red eye. Buy 



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