194 GA RDEN FL O WERS. 



of New England woods and waters, displays one of the 

 brightest scarlets among herbaceous plants. It grows three 

 to four feet high, and is easily cultivated. Mal/va Alcea, 

 gai'den mallow, is a rosy-purple flowering plant that blooms 

 in late summer. It gi-ows two to three feet high, and has 

 flowers two inches across. 



M. inoscliata alha is a similar species, -with pure white 

 flowers. CEnotlwra speciosa, a late-blooming, evening prim- 

 rose, Avith large, fragrant flowers, the Avhite petals of Avhich 

 become rosy purple when fading. The garden phloxes, de- 

 rived from Phlox paniculata, P. maculata, etc., have been 

 much hybridized aud crossed. The height varies fi'om one 

 to four feet, the foliage from narrow and shining to broad 

 and dull. The flo\vers grow in a broad, pyramidal head, 

 often six inches across, and continue in bloom in late summer 

 and autumn for two or three months. There are colors, 

 shades, and markings innumerable. Among the self-colored 

 — /. e., all of one color, we find pure white, cream, salmon, 



rose, lilac, carmine, purple, violet, 

 and crimson. In some varieties two 

 colors combine, either beautifully 

 shaded, or with a distinct centre of 

 one color and the rest of the flower 

 of another. There are also beau- 

 tifully striped varieties. This is 

 truly a magnificent group of flower- 

 LEADwoRT. ^"S plants, and should be planted 



(plumbago LARPENT/E.) auioug declduous shrubs or among 



other large herbaceous plants where there will be other foli- 

 age to support aud mask the lower portion of the phloxes. 



