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would be fine with it or any of the soft white flowers of the 

 season. The following is a list of the prettiest lavender and 

 purple Phlox that I have seen : 



Cendrillon: White shaded delicate gray. Buds and tubes soft blue. 

 Late flowering. 2\ ft. 

 Lady Grisel: White shaded gray. Buds dim blue. Early. i\ ft. 

 Crepuscle: Silvery mauve with Tyrian eye. 2^ ft. 

 Derviche: Lilac-blue with white centre. Late. 3 ft. 

 Eugene Danzanvilliers: Mauve and white. 3 ft. 

 Iris: Bluish-violet self. 3^ ft 

 Pharon: Mauve with white eye. 2 ft. 

 Le Mahdi: Dark bluish-violet self. 2\ ft. 

 Papillon: Grayish-white, with violet tubes. 3 ft. 

 Wanadis: Hortense violet with Tyrian eye. 2§ ft. 



Maeterlinck writes of the loud laughter of the jolly, easy- 

 going Phlox, and while this is hardly complimentary there is 

 yet much truth in the simile and in the wheel-like regularity 

 of its blossoms, the perfection of its flower heads, the sym- 

 metry of its growth, there is certainly monotony. To my 

 thinking the Phlox needs a deal of neutralizing. Thus 

 counterbalanced, however, by plants of diffuse habit or 

 spirelike growth, with many blue flowers and much silver 

 foliage and pretty white garnitures, no plant confers so 

 gracious a boon upon the garden. Nothing is finer for 

 association with the Phloxes than the blue and silver Sea 

 Hollies and Globe Thistles (Eryngiums Oliverianum, planum 

 and amethystinum and Echinops Ritro and bannaticus). 

 These, grown in groups of six or eight among the Phloxes, 

 create a fine effect. Gypsophila, too, is lovely with them 

 and the August-flowering Aconites, Veronica virginica, 



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