PHLOX 473 



Phlox decussata 



The best way to propagate this Phlox, to which belong such 

 fine colored sorts as Miss Jenkins (white), W. G. Egan (soft 

 lilac pink), Elizabeth Campbell (salmon rose), Rynstrom (carmine 

 pink), and Mauve Queen, is through rooted cuttings. Lift two- or 

 three-year-old clumps in Fall; even one-year-old ones will do, and, 

 in fact, usually have the best roots. Remove part of the soil 

 carefully and then with a knife cut off some of the heaviest roots. 

 You can cut to within two inches of the plant, but let all the small 

 roots remain. The plants can then be divided (if they are large 

 enough) and replanted in the field. 



The roots you have cut off should be cut into 1-in. pieces. 

 Have flats ready with a layer of soil in the bottom on which is spread 

 a layer — about a half-inch in thickness — of sand; spread the root 

 cuttings thinly over the sand and cover with another layer of sand 

 of the same thickness. Put a strong label with the name of the 

 variety in one end of the flat and place the flats in a coldframe. 

 All the water they need is enough to keep them from drying out. 

 By February bring them in and. place them on a shelf or bench in 

 a 50-deg. house. In a few weeks the young plants will appear and 

 soon are ready to be either potted up or transplanted into other 

 flats to go into the field by the end of April to flower the first season. 



These directions are of course meant for the retail grower and 

 not the nurseryman who has no greenhouses. You can by this 

 method quickly grow on a fine stock of plants, and when once under 

 way, you soon will have a lot of fine plants for sale, besides having 

 a grand display of flowering stock on your own grounds. 



Plant Phloxes — a lot of them. Use them for cut flowers and 

 push the sale of the plants. It pays every florist to do so. 



Phlox subulata and other Hardy Forms 



You will surely have call for this creeping Phlox which is fine 

 for borders or in the rockery with its evergreen, moss-1 ke foliage. 

 It comes in a clear lilac pink and a pure white. While it is no good 

 as a cut flower, it surely is most effective when a mass of color in 

 Spring. The pink does not, however, go weU with all other colors. 



Other hardy Phloxes are: P. amcena, which like P. subulata, is 

 of dwarf growth forming a dense mass of mossy green and very 

 showy when in full bloom If you want something with mauve or 

 lilac colored flowers for massing in the hardy border, Phlox Arendsii 

 —either Amanda or Louise — will give it to you. These are early 

 flowering hybrids coming into bloom even before Miss Lingard, 

 and while they are not to be compared with that variety as sources 

 of cut flowers, they are fine, nevertheless, and stay in bloom for 

 five weeks or more. 



