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arc pale red, and the tints of some are so deep that they may be 

 described as rich crimson or crimson-scarlet. There are also 

 pale purple or lilac varieties, and the shades of colour run into 

 deep reddish purple. Many are streaked and marked with two 

 or more shades of the same colour, and relieved by the interior of 

 the corolla being white or cream-coloured. The spikes of flowers, 

 if cut with long steins, may be used for vases, and they last well 

 in water in rooms that are kept fairly cool. 



The Phlox. — This handsome garden-plant has been coupled 

 with the Pentstemon because they have many similar charac- 

 t« -ristics, and much of the treatment of the one applies to the 

 other. There is one advantage the Phlox has over the Pentste- 

 mon, and that is in its absolute hardiness. It does not seem to 

 be injured in the least by the severest weather in winter. There 

 are also two distinct types of Phloxes ; that is to say, they have 

 been derived from two distinct original specific forms, which 

 probably are not now to be found in gardens. Both are North 

 American plants, the most prominent species being P. suffruti- 

 cosa, established as a distinct species by Willdenow in his 

 account of the plants cultivated in the Berlin Botanic (iarden 

 before 1815. It is also included in Pursh's " North American 

 Flora " under the name of /\ nitida. The plant is well figured 

 under Willdenow's name in the Botanical llcgiatcr , tab. OS; ami 

 another variety in the Botanical Magazine, tab. 2155, as 

 P. carnca. Sweet, in the u British Flower (iarden," figures it 

 under the name of P. Carolina, tab. 100. The same plant 

 was figured in the Botanical Magazine, tab. 1344, in 1811 as 

 P. Carolina. 



P. paniculato has also been published under numerous 

 synonyms. It is figured in Sweet's " Flower Garden " as 

 P. cordata, ser. ii. 13 ; P. scabra, tab. 248 ; and P. corymbosa, 

 ser. ii. 114. But they have become so intermingled by cross- 

 fertilisation in gardens that no florist could, I think, be' 

 found who would absolutely identify either. In my own recol- 

 lection, some thirty-five years ago, the tall late-flowering 

 varieties could be distinctly traced to P. yaniculata, or deenssata 

 of the florists, and at that time these were of little use for 

 flowering in Scotland or in the northern districts of England, 

 whilst the varieties of P. mffruticosa flowered a month earlier, 

 and were much esteemed as garden flowers. One of them, named 



