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hardy. It should be planted in sandy fibry loam, in rather 

 level. warm spots on rockwork, where it could root freely into 

 the moist soil, and yet be near the congenial influences of the 

 broken rocks and stones, down the buried sides of which it 

 can send its roots. It should always have a sunny position. 

 I have seen it grown as a border-plant in a moist part of 

 Ireland, but in the hands of a very careful cultivator, who grew 

 it in very fine soil on a select border, and took up, divided, and 

 carefully replanted the tufts every autumn. It may also be 

 grown in pots plunged in sand in the open air, and in frames in 

 winter ; but I have always noticed that it becomes drawn and 

 delicate under glass protection of any kind. Easily increased by 

 careful division, and may also be raised from seed. A native of 

 Northern Italy, the Tyrol, and various other elevated parts of 

 Southern Europe, as well as the Pyrenees. 



PHLOX ViVJ hSUC&.'lt^—Spreadijig P. 



Larger than the Creeping Phlox or Moss Pink, attaining a 

 height of about one foot, and bearing large lilac-purple blossoms ; 

 the leaves are rounded at the base, oblong-egg-shaped or oblong- 

 lance-shaped in outhne. The plant thrives very well on rock- 

 work in good garden soil, and flowers in summer. A native of 

 North America, and increased by division. 



PHLOX "KEPTKi^fS.— Creeping Pink. 



With the large flowers and richness of colour of the taller 

 Phloxes, this mantles over borders and rockworks with a healthy 

 soft green about an inch or two high, and sends up numbers of 

 stems from four to six inches high at the end of April or beginning 

 of May, each producing from five to eight deep purplish-rose 

 flowers. It is by no means fastidious as to soil or situation, but 

 will be found to thrive best in peat or light rich soils. As 

 it creeps along the ground, and gives off numbers of httle rootlets 

 from the joints, it is propagated with the greatest ease and 

 facility. A person with the slightest experience in propagation 

 may convert a tuft of it into a thousand plants in a very short 

 time. It is almost indispensable for the rock-garden, makes 

 very pretty edgings round the margins of beds, and also capital 

 tufts on the front edge of the mixed border. It may also be used 

 in the spring garden and for vase decoration, and is a native of 



