428 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. 



FLORICULTURAL AND BOTANICAL NOTICES. 



New Phloxes. — This showy tribe of plants, the grandest 

 among our many hardy perennials, has been greatly improved 

 by the English and French cultivators, and also by the skill 

 of our own amateurs and nurserymen. The varieties have 

 now become mimerous, and some of the newer sorts remark- 

 ably beautiful. We have never held this flower in such 

 estimation as we do at the present time ; the plenteous rains 

 of August, the period when they are in the greatest perfection, 

 has given a vigor and growth to the plants which we have 

 not seen since many of the kinds have been introduced, and 

 they have thrown up such stout stems, crowned with such 

 magnificent panicles of flowers, that they have quite eclipsed 

 all the other plants around them. 



Last year we noticed some of these new varieties ; the 

 following are additional, and some of them entirely new : — 



Madame Hermance — Blush, with violet eye ; large flowers 

 in broad flattish heads ; flowering after the early sorts, and 

 before the late ones. 



Baron de Villers — Lilac rose ; very large finely formed 

 flower ; heads very large ; late. 



M. Hardy — Rose, with carmine eye ; large flower and fine 

 clustered heads ; late blooming. 



Madame de Vatry — Lilac rose, with crimson eye ; large 

 flower and large heads ; late. 



Jaune Rouillard — Bhish, with violet eye ; large round 

 flower, and beautiful compact head ; late. 



M. Rical — Crimson, with carmine eye ; flower medium 

 size, very finely formed ; heads of flowers very large. This 

 is one of the brightest colored of all phloxes. Habit vefy 

 robust ; late. 



Mademoiselle Albertine — Pale lilac, with large white eye, 

 similar to Gem ; flower large and round, appearing in elon- 

 gated heads or spikes ; late. 



Carmarina — White, finely striped and pencilled wnth deep 

 rose ; flowers large and very round, in flattish heads like 

 Mad. Hermance ; flowering at the midseason. 



