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PHLOX— "How to Beautify Your Home Grounds" 
well mulched the first winter with 4 or 5 inches 
of loose soil and leaves or coarse manure. 
This mulch should be raked off in the spring. 
For planting along borders and in masses for 
immediate color effects, they can be set 8 or 10 
inches apart. If planted in rows, set 18 inches 
apart, in rows 3 feet wide. 
Phlox Spade the ground well and work it 
fine. Then dig a hole deep enough so 
the crown or bud will come 1 inch below the 
surface, and large enough so that the roots will 
not be crowded. Be careful not to get the buds 
at the base of the stalk too deep. The old stalk 
is dead and the new top must be developed 
from these buds. Press the earth firmly about 
the roots. If the planting is done in the fall, 
mulch with 5 or 6 inches of loose earth and 
leaves. Rake off mulch in the spring. Blooms 
can be had late in the season by cutting off the 
tops of some of the shoots as soon as the buds 
start to form. Plant 12 to 30 inches apart. 
The tops die to the ground each winter and 
should be cut off. Some gardeners leave the 
dead tops until spring to mark the place, so 
that the roots will not be dug up by mistake, or 
injured when the ground is worked over. 
Phlox. 
The new growth starts 
from buds at the crown. 
These buds must be set 
not more than one Inch 
below the surface of the 
ground, as shown aliove. 
How to Beautify Your Home Grounds 
Since this book, "Inside Facts," was published, it has become appar- 
ent that there is a wide demand for more complete information on land- 
scape gardening. This really belongs in a booklet by itself, which is now 
ready for the public, under the title "How to Beautify Your Home 
Grounds." This book has 50 pages with over 60 illustrations and dia- 
grams, explaining concisely, yet completely, the correct principles of ar- 
rangement and planting. 
It describes in detail the best shrubs, hedge plants, climbing vines, 
roses, lilac, peony, phlox, iris, and ornamental trees, and gives direc- 
tions on how to plant, prune, and care for them 
at planting time and after they attain full size. 
The most helpful and unique feature is a 
unit collection system which makes it much 
easier and more economical to put correct prin- 
ciples into effect and to secure for the begin- 
ner results which are expected only frojn an 
experienced landscape gardener. 
A blue print is included, on which to draw 
your own plan under the guidance of three 
other blue prints which show typical plans for 
a city residence, a suburban home, and a home 
in the country. There is a nominal charge of 
10 cents per copy, but is furnished free to any 
customers. 
NEOSHO NURSERIES COMPANY, 
Neosho, Missouri. 
