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stated that all nine varieties dae true to type through seed. 
nine varieties named are: (1) chamois-rose; (2) variabilis 
ame eopoldii) ; r 
Gea with ine: (7) Radowitzii; oe alba oculata; 
and (9) alba. 
Les Fleurs de Pieine Terre (3d ed., 1870) is careful to recom- 
mend only the sorts of Phlox Drummondii which “se repro- 
duisent assez identiquement de semis,” and we find in it all the 
alba are white-eyed varieties. The listing of variabilis is to be 
noted, for it seems to be quite variable; but it is always bluish, 
violet, or grayish in flower color. 
The Florist and oe for 1872 gives as one of the ‘‘con- 
tinental noveltie of the present year’? Phlox Drummondii 
ii cardinals, and I think it rightly condemns it as being 
inferior to other Phlox varieties, for it appears to be Heynholdit, 
a slow grower and a bearer of comparatively few flowers 
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have 
wers 2 cm. or more in diameter with the eral es Senet 
paler’ ing. When we learn of the years F. C. Heinemann 
spent in hybridizing ni selecting in this species, it seems that it 
would have been more appropriate and anes if the group 
to-day still bore the name Heinemann. 
In order to determine to wha t extent, if any, _ hybridization 
f 
re used: 
oculata, atropurpurea, stellata (possibly kermesina eat 
d a fifth lilac-colored form. His cross between stellata 
