ON THE CULTURE OF PERENNIALS. 



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ART. 3. On the Culture of the Phlox. 



This beautiful family of plants are mostly indigenous to 

 this continent, and are the pride of the western prairies in the 

 spring ; where hundreds of acres are completely covered with 

 their lively tinselled blossoms. Many varieties are also found 

 in the state of Ohio, near the vicinity of Cincinnati; and 

 several pretty dwarf varieties, as the Moss-pink, grow spon- 

 taneously on the mountainous parts of New York state, and 

 give a pleasing effect in the early part of the spring, when 

 few other plants are to be seen in blossom. 



