No. 1722. 
PHLOX PROCUMBENS. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
res. 
This plant has been lately brought into 
cultivation: it is perennial, and quite hardy. 
Its elegant flowers come out in May, and 
last a considerable time. It may be in- 
creased by separating the roots or by cut- 
tings, and should be planted in light loam, 
either in a pot ora border: its height does 
not exceed a few inches, the branches trail- 
ing on the ground, which it adorns with its 
beauties, exhilarating the mind, and direct- 
ing it upwards to the All-Gracious Source 
of every thing ; whose blessed word, under 
every circumstance of this varied life, is so 
cheering to the heart. 
“ That field of promise, how it flings mére 
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Forgets her labour as = end song; 
Weeps tears of joy, a 
