JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XVI September, 1915 No. 189 
CULTIVATED VARIETIES OF PHLOX DRUMMONDII 
Varieties of Phlox Drummondii are among the most popular 
of the annual plants cultivated in flower gardens. They are all 
e numerous varieties or races of the anaual phloxes 
all fad within the single species. The seed catalogue of 
Haage and Schmidt of Erfurt, Germany, for the year 1914 lists 
by name 173 varieties of Phlox Drummondii. Still others are 
of flowers. For instance, . the dark purple-flowered kinds 
there are several disti varieties such as tall small-flowered 
rounding the tube or throat) is only a little deeper in shade than 
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