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The plants being left in the ground all the winter take 
no harm, and begin early in the spring to grow. When 
the new shoots are about two inches high, the roots may 
be lifted and divided, and planted again in freshly-dug 
and hberally-manured ground. In their new stations they 
may be allowed to stand two or three years, and should then 
he taken up, divided, and again planted. This we may 
call the rough-and-ready way, and it has for many years 
past been our way with a collection comprising over a 
hundred varieties. When grown for exhibition, a fresh 
stock should be planted every year in well-manured turfy 
loam, and if the summer should be hot and dry, the plants 
should have liberal help from the water-pot. In making 
plants for ordinary purposes it is quite sufficient to pull 
off rooted pieces, but when stock of some particular sorts 
is required in quantity, the old stools should be potted and 
gently forced, and the tops should be made into cuttings 
and struck in a gentle heat. By this mode of procedure 
one plant may be made the parent of hundreds, because 
propagating may be continued until far into the month of 
May, and the plants will flower the same season, though 
late perhaps. To grow fine phloxes the two important 
points are to renew the plants frequently and feed them 
well. To raise phloxes from seed is an equally simple 
affair. First secure your seed, as Mrs. Glasse might say ; 
and if you begin with first-rate sorts you will not get 
much. Our plan has been to sow im pans as soon as the 
seed was fully ripe, and keep the young plants in a pit 
through the winter. But it will suit amateurs better to 
sow in spring, and we must advise keeping the seed-pans 
under glass until the plants are forward, when they may 
be planted in an open nursery-bed to flower. They should 
