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VAN HOUTTE’S PHLOX. 
Garden Variety. 
For a knowledge of this remarkable plant we are indebted 
to M. Louis van Houtte, nurseryman of Ghent, who sent it to 
us in October last, in full flower ; but without any account of 
its origin. 
It is a variety of remarkable beauty, looking as if P. sua- 
veolens bad been crossed with P. caroliniana, leaving on a 
white ground a crimson evidence of its paternity. The ap- 
pearance of the plant is beautiful, far beyond any thing yet 
seen in the genus Phlox ; and we were almost going to say, 
beyond any thing among the hardy perennials in cultivation. 
An approach to it was exhibited last year by Mr. Mount- 
joy, nurseryman of Ealing, but it was only an approach, with 
a much paler stain on the corolla. That, however, was very- 
pretty ; and well worth the acquisition of the lovers of gay 
flowers. 
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