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pale lilac colors. Phlox Douglasii may be used successfully 

 where the soil is too dry for the above. For shady places 

 use Divaricata; while the plant itself is creeping in habit, 

 the stems rise to a height of a foot or a foot and a half; it 

 remains in flower throughout the early summer. There are 

 two splendid new varieties of this, one dark blue and the 

 other white, which make it still more valuable. The earliest 

 of the upright phloxes come into bloom in May; among 

 these are Miss Lingard, white with a dark colored eye; 

 Mrs. Dalrimple, rosy white with scarlet eye, and Ninon, 

 deep rosy Hlac. Among the best of the standard summer 

 flowering varieties are — of the pure white — Mrs. Jenkins; 

 Frau Anton Buchner; Jeanne d'Arc, which come into bloom 

 in the order mentioned and are especially good; Frau Anton 

 Buchner has the largest individual flowers of any white sort. 

 Among the brightest of the crimson- and red sorts are 

 Tragedie, brilliant carmine; Coquelicot, pure scarlet with 

 crimson eye; Henry Marcel, red with bright salmon shading; 

 Siebold, one of the best bright reds; Vesuvius, dazzhng red 

 with purple eye. Between these there is a wide range of 

 colors, shading through lilac, light pink, mauve, magenta; 

 Elizabeth Campbell, salmon pink with red eye; Thor, some- 

 what similar but darker color; Gefion, peach pink; W. C. 

 Egan, a newer sort and one of the best both in vigor and 

 color, — hlac with bright center — and with immense in- 

 dividual flowers; Bridesmaid, white with crimson eye; 

 Mme. Paul Dutrie, soft Klac rose, extra large flowers and 

 panicles; Rynstrom, carmine rose; La Vague, pure mauve. 

 These are all splendid varieties but can be bought very rea- 

 sonably, from fifteen to twenty-five cents each, or in collec- 

 tions at an average of Httle over the former figure. Your 

 order for phloxes should also include some of the Arendsi 

 type; this new race is entirely distinct, — of very vigorous, 

 branching habit, only one to two feet high, coming into 

 bloom between the early flowering tall sorts and those de- 

 scribed above, and are more free-flowering than any others. 

 The late blooming phloxes will not be ready for re-setting 

 until well into October, and may be set from then until 



