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ers in summer," and "our garden is so bare of plants 

 during hot weather." The perennials among the 

 asters, sunflowers, and some others are not so large 

 and showy as the annual species, but are much easier 

 to grow, and their permanence makes them ex- 

 tremely desirable as compared with the annual 

 species. 



There is here appended a list of fifty as they oc- 

 cur to the author, but this list has not touched upon 

 some classes of plants and could be extended into 

 the hundreds: ageratum, anemone, aster, begonia, 

 boltonia, candytuft, canna, Canterbury bell, chrys- 

 anthemum, coreopsis, cuphea, daisy, dahlia, day lily, 

 - evening primrose, foxglove, forget-me-not, fuchsia, 

 gaillardia, geranium, goldenrod, grasses, heliotrope, 

 heuchera, hibiscus, hollyhock, hunnemannia, iris, 

 larkspur, lavender, linum, lobelia, lupine, nierem- 

 bergia, pansy, petunia, phlox, pink, poppy, prim- 

 rose, rudbeckia, salvia, snapdragon, statice, stevia, 

 stocks, sweet alyssum, sweet william, verbena, violet, 

 wallflower. 



PERENNIAL PHLOX 



These old-fashioned plants, in their newer and 

 improved types, make one of the most imposing dis- 

 plays of color that it is possible to obtain in the gar- 

 den. It is not many years since there were but two 

 or three colors grown. The phloxes of our grand- 

 mother's garden were the small-flowered white, 

 pink, and purple varieties. Today we have them in 

 every color from pure white to darkest crimson, 

 with all the intervening shades of salmon, scarlet, 

 rose, pink striped, etc., with enormous individual 

 blooms carried in large, beautifully formed trusses. 



Phloxes do remarkably well in California, fur- 

 nishing a constant display from early spring to the 



