PENTSTEMONS AND PHLOXES. 



The following selection will give good exhibition flowers, but there are many 

 others equally good, and a choice strain raised in Sir Trevor Lawrence's garden is 

 to be recommended: — 



Argon. 



Brian Wynne. 

 Buccleuch Gem. 

 Cavalier. 

 Dietz-Monnin. 

 Emperor. 

 George Reynolds. 

 George Uhlricli. 



Selection of P e n tste m o n s 



gigantea. 

 James Douglas. 

 John Duncanson. 

 John Stewart. 

 Leonidas. 

 Lord Mayor. 

 Lucien Biart. 

 Maggie Porter. 



Moonshine. 



Mousquetaire. 



Neil McKxnnon. 



Pythagore. 



Sesostris. 



Thos. McCrorie. 



AVaverley. 



W. E. Gladstone. 



THE PHLOX. 



Occasionally in old gardens one meets with a specimen of the old phloxes which 

 serves as an object lesson to exhibit the improved beauty of the flower as it has been 

 developed by the hybridiser and seedling raiser. The small, imperfectly formed flowers 

 with thin petals, the sparsely-flowered trusses, the weedy-looking plants, contrast with 

 the large, well-formed blooms of substantial texture, the well-filled trusses, and the 

 compact habit of the modern phlox. The latter seems to fulfil the requirements of 

 the florists' code, which says that the stem of the plant should be strong, stout, and 

 erect ; the spikes full of bloom, dense, and of symmetrical shape ; the blooms stout in 

 texture, flat, and quite circular in form, with clear, decided colours. For representa- 

 tions of these see Index for Coloured Plate. 



Phloxes are divided into three sections. The first are the dwarf phloxes, which 

 flower in spring or early summer, and are valuable for edgings or the rock garden, 

 under which headings they have been included. For convenience, a selection is given 

 here also. 



The varieties immediately under notice as florists' flowers, and so valuable from 

 their beauty and effect in the mixed border or in beds or borders by themselves, like 

 the preceding, seem to have originated in North America. They are divided into two 

 sections, called, for convenience, the early and the late flowering phloxes. The first 

 is understood to have been derived from Phlox glaberrima suffruticosa ; the second 

 from P. maculata and P. paniculata. The early-flowering varieties have not yet 

 reached so great a stage of perfection as the later, but all are very beautiful, well 

 deserving the cultivation they require. 



