IN THE FRONT YARD. 153 



A DISCOVERY. 



It is a well known fact that some fruits and. flowers 

 have a marvelous degree of motherhood. The Con- 

 cord grape, the Wealthy and Duchess apples have a 

 numerous progeny. This is true in the floral world. 

 For years I had been raising seedling phloxes. I found 

 no deterioration, and often improvement. If you plant 

 a choice kind away by itself, it will be reproduced 

 from the seed to a large extent, and often when inter- 

 mingled the progeny will surpass the parents. 



Of course, it was necessary to have a mother with 

 the choicest of characteristics. What was needed was 

 a full head, large flowers and continuous bloom. 



This was found in the Crepuscule of French origin. 

 The flower is as large as a silver dollar. It has a com- 

 'pact, massive head, as though it was one large blossom. 

 The bloom is white with violet shade and a large bright 

 carmine eye. It is rather dwarf in habit, for it prefers 

 to make bloom rather than stem or wood. Every way 

 it is an ideal flower. 



I planted this in the midst of others. Right by the 

 side of it was the Coquelicot, also of French origin. 

 This has blossoms of intense flame color, but unfor- 

 tunately the flowers are small, and they sunburn badly. 

 In themselves they are worthless. But Mother Cre- 

 puscule imparted both size and hardiness to the ofl^- 

 spring of these jolants. On the other side there were 

 those that were red, some magenta and others of various 

 colors. Seeds of these gave fine distinct flowers and 



