ON THE CULTURE OF PERENNIALS. 



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ART. 4. Descriptive List of Phlox. 



Dot. Name. English Name. 

 Acuminate tall purple 



Breck's seedling 

 Carter's seedling 

 small flowered 

 early flowering 

 spotted stalls 



breckii 



carnea 



parviflora 



divaricata 



maculate 



pyramidalis Pyramidal 



striata striped 



purpurea late purple 



pyramidalis white 



repens creeping 



striatiflora Carter's striped 



stolonefera creeping 



carnea incarnate 



van houtii 



verna 



youngii 



undulate 



brownii 



tardiflora 



subulate 



nivalis 



decussata 



Color. Remarks. 



P. purple [Breck, Boston, 



a seedling grown by Mr. 

 raised by Mr. Carter, Boston. 



flowers in July, 

 flowers in July ; native, 

 flowers from June till Sept. 



Incarnate 

 Purple 

 P. purple 

 D. red 

 Red 



Variegated 

 Purple 

 White 



Red pretty dwarf early variety. 



Variegated splendid variety. 

 Red flowers in April ; of dwarf, low 



P. red [habit. 



Van Route's striped Variegated beautiful variety. 



vernal flowering 

 Young's 

 wave leaved 

 Brown's 

 sweet 

 moss pink 

 white moss pink 

 decussate 

 procumbens procumbent 

 scabra rough leaved 



Carolina Carolina 

 paniculate panicled 

 suaveolens sweet scented 

 wheelerii Wheeler's 

 * pictum Carter's pictured 



White spring flowering. 



Crim. lilac new. 



Red middle of summer. 



Red new. 



White late flowering variety 



Pink dwarf early flowering. 



Pure white dwarf early flowering, 



White 



Red 



Purple 



Br. red 



Red 



W r hite 



Purple 



flowers in July, 

 late flowering. 



flowers hi the summer, 

 new. 



Variegated a most beautiful variety. 



ABT. 5. On the Culture of the Paeonia. 



The Pseonia, or Paeony, so called, derives its name from 

 PEON, (a physician, who first used it in medicine) ; it forms 

 one of the noblest families of plants belonging to the flower 

 garden, and is increasing every where, by the attention paid 

 by florists in raising new varieties from seed, by hybridizing 

 of the finer varieties one with another. This family forms 

 two separate divisions of plants, one being suflrutescent or 

 shrubby, as the Tree-paeony; and the other herbaceous, as 

 the common red, or Crimson Paeony, well known in almost 

 every flower garden. Within these few years, splendid ad- 

 ditions to this noble flower have been introduced from China, , 



