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the assemblage of races developed since the plant came 
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purposes other than that of Drummond’s, and we may conclude 
that the numerous varieties arose in the one strain. 
According to Hovey’s Magazine for September eu seeds of 
Phlox Drummondii were obtained from London 
Buel and Wilson, nireeryinen at Albany, io ae distributed 
crimson and the others were described as of various shades of 
rose or lilac. A statement as to the variability of these types 
at that time would be very interesting 
In 1845 the Journal z Horticulture Pratigue gave an account 
‘ba kerm d 
iia now cultivated under the name “stellata splen- 
nS. 
The first reference to a pure white-flowered variety Silas 
in Paxton's Magazine, 1846, p. 142. Later in the same volume 
(p. 191), it is ee that this sort reproduces itself a cer- 
tainty from seed. The dsl d' Horticulture for 1847 (p. 367) 
als so m i 
ety. 
The cee alba oculata and Leopoldii were mentioned as 
novelties in Hovey’s Magazine for July, 1848. The former is 
described as pure white’ with a violet eye just like the familiar 
alba oculata now in cultivation. The Leopoldit was describe 
as having a rosy violet flower with a white eye 
A glance at the beautiful colored plate in Ann. Soc. d'Agric. et 
Bot. de Gand. for 1848, page 337, will show that the ‘‘eyes” or 
center markings of some of the early Drummond’s Phioxes 
