LIST OF FLOWERS 



kind are more suited for pot culture in the greenhouse and should be 

 propagated by cuttings made in August in a good bottom heat and 

 potted off in due course in ordinary compost. Some of the best- 

 named double kinds are the white Juliette Lamber, the pink and white 

 fringed-petalled Frau Stadt Schroder, and the bluish-purple Charon. 



PHACELIA. A hardy annual with many varieties of size and 

 habit, that most generally known being P. cumpanularia, growing 

 about I foot high and producing a fine display of deep blue flowers. 

 A larger kind is P. tanacetifolia, a vigorous plant some 2 or 3 feet high, 

 with fine foliage and handsome heads of pale-blue flowers; whUe for 

 the Rock Garden there is P. hMtnilis, only a few inches high, with 

 freely spreading stems bearing flowers of rich dark blue. 



PHLOX. The half-hardy annual P- Drummondi, of which 

 there are many varieties, is that most generally known, and is one of 

 the most useful by reason of its brilliance and diversity in colqur and 

 its comparative indifference to bad weather. Its chief desideratum 

 is a rich, moist soU — it cannot endjire starvation. Seed should be 

 sown early in March in a warm, moist atmosphere, and the seedlings 

 pricked off as soon as they can be handled and kept in a temperature 

 of 50° to 55° until the weather is warm enough to plant them out- 

 side. The other Phloxes, the perennial kind, may be roughly divided 

 into two groups — the Alpine, dwarf, or creeping sort, and the tall 

 herbaceous plants. P. subulata is a typical example of the first group, 

 a beautiful little evergreen bearing a mass of rose-purple flowers, 

 whUe its variety, P. nivalis, is smaller, more trailing, and more fully 

 leaved. Then for the creeping sort we have P. reptans, blooming as 

 eaxly as the beginning of May, sending out numberless stems bearing 

 flowers of a deep-rose tint, and thriving in a moist and shady nook; 

 whUe for the taU herbaceous kind, that called Coquelicot, a fine, 

 handsome plant with flowers of brUliant orange-scarlet, is certainly 

 one of the best. 



PHYGELIUS. P. capensis, the Cape Figwort, is a hardy 

 perennial well suited for a light-soUed, dry situation, as it loves the 

 heat and wUl endure drought. In a fairly good soU it wiU attain 

 some 3 feet high, sending out fine flower-spikes of briUiant scarlet, 

 which last from early summer tiU autumn. It may be grown from 

 seed but is more easUy grown by cuttings from the root-stock. 



PHYSALIS. P Alkekengi (the Winter Cherry), though classed 

 as a hardy perennial, is glad of a warm situation. It is a handsome 

 plant, growing some 18 inches high and bearing in autumn bright 



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