188 
In 1876, the year following the announcement of the grandi- 
flora phloxes the Gartenflora (24: 248) states that there were 
already ten varieties of the grandiflora class. This publication 
at the same time announced to flower- i a white-eyed 
a ee and also a dwarf form of ¢ 
2 we read of Phlox nad hore (Gar- 
sors 31: 140) as entering the trade. This type was at that 
e first mention of a variety of : DA with 
half- fase flowers was in the Gartenflora ae 1886, and it arose 
n coccinea; in 1890 a semi-double form of airopurpurea was 
announced. In 1887 in the Garienflora we read of Phlox Drum- 
mondit alba flora pleno as the first really double-flowered sort. 
1887, bestowed “certificate of merit’ on the firm of Martin 
the central one, and in fimbriata the central tooth is only a little 
longer than the adjacent side teeth. On page 426 of the same 
volume, Sprenger stated that he know of two localities, one in 
Italy and one in North America, where cuspidata had arisen 
spontaneously. By 1889 a rather dwarf cuspidaia variety, 
Fireball, was to be had of seedsmen. 
Gartenflora for 1903 (p. 27) gave a notice of the appearance of 
