November 20, 1895.] 



Garden and Forest. 



465 



Fig. 64. — Chrysanthemum, William Simpson. — See page 464. 



hardy here, standing our most severe winters without any 

 protection. 



There are very few plants in the garden that blossom for 

 such a length of time as Phlox maculata. The plants here 

 began to bloom early in July, and they are still producing flow- 

 ers up till this date, November 12th. It is strange that so pleas- 

 ing a plant is so rarely cultivated now in gardens. Indeed, 



there are very few of the improved varieties of this species or 

 of P. paniculata that area^ pleasing and effective as this typical 

 plant. Tliis Phlox grows about two feet high, and the stems 

 are slightly spotted with purple. The leaves are smooth, the 

 lower ones lanceolate and the upper ones nearly ovate-lanceo- 

 late from a cordate base. The flowers are of a pink-purplish 

 color and are produced in long narrow panicles. The plants 



