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where the soil is well drained and deep, and may be increased 
by pegging down the trailing stems until they take root and 
then detaching them. There is a form of P. stolonifera known 
as P. verna. Pennsylvania southward, mostly in high regions. 
P. subulata (syn. setacea). Few dwarf plants at our disposal 
are as altogether charming and accommodating as is the little 
Moss Pink in its many varieties. Its close, small-leaved tufts 
are in April and early May almost obliterated by the little 
round flowers, and where it is planted freely the effect is most 
beautiful. The loveliest form is that known as G. F. Wilson, 
pale silvery lavender with a darker eye. It is a perfect ac- 
companiment for Daffodils. Vivid is a lovely brilliant pink 
showing- finely as a foreground for P. divaricata. The Bride 
and Nelsoni are fine white forms, the latter much less compact 
in habit than the others and inclined to be less hardy. A very 
pretty picture is created by planting Grape Hyacinths thickly 
beneath the spreading mats of the ordinary pinky magenta 
form. When the plants become untidy and straggling they 
may be taken up and divided, the pieces being set out in a 
frame of sandy soil or in a partially shaded, well-drained 
border. All the dwarf Phloxes are much helped by a dressing 
of sandy loam worked in among the shoots immediately after 
flowering. 
PHLOX DIVARICATA OR “WILD SWEET WILLIAM” 
Flowering in tulip time this Phlox delightfully companions the Dar- 
wins with whose rose, bronze, and deep purple the pure lavender 
of its massed bloom makes rare harmony. The Arendsi Phloxes 
are said to be hybrids of this and the Hardy Perennial variety 
