LIST OF THE BEST PHLOXES 291 
with the age of the flower. A very free-flowering variety with a 
white eye. 
Mr J. S. Brunton . An excellent deep cornflower-blue variety 
having large flowers which stand out well from the main stem. 
It has a white eye covered with deep orange hairs, and grows 
6 feet high. The individual spikes measure 20 inches long. 
The foliage is deeply divided. 
Mrs James Kelway. A very beautiful variety, 8 feet tall. The 
spikes are blunt, and measure 33 inches long ; the flowers are 
semi-double, pale Venetian blue with white eye. 
Norman Hurst. A beautiful semi-double variety, having the inner 
petals violet-purple and the outer one marine blue. It has a 
white eye, is very free-flowering, and is 6 feet high, with spikes 
21 inches in length. One of the earliest in the trial to flower. 
Royal Standard. Height 4J feet, spike good, blunt, well furnished, 
with marine-blue flowers having a white centre. Although of 
no great height, this proved to be one of the prettiest and most 
effective varieties in the trial. 
Smoke of War. A very striking and distinct variety, growing 7 
feet high. The spikes, measuring 33 inches long, are tapering 
and well furnished, with symmetrical large, deep violet-purple 
flowers. 
LIST OF THE BEST PHLOXES TRIED AT 
WISLEY, 1908 AND 1909, AND WHICH 
RECEIVED AWARDS OF MERIT OR 
MENTION 
AND THE DESCRIPTIONS GIVEN THEM BY THE ROYAL 
HORICULTURAL SOCIETY 
P. Andre Mickaux. Pale rose, with magenta eye ; flower if inch ; 
broad flat truss. 2-f feet. 
P. Aspasie. Rosy magenta, with white eye ; flower if inch ; large, 
dense truss, if feet. The calyces are bronze, forming a good 
background to the flowers. 
P. Aviation. Salmon-rose; flower if inch; of good form, broad, 
dense, pyramidal truss. 2 feet. A very showy variety. 
P. Beranger. Pale salmon-rose on opening, which changes to 
rose, slightly deeper at the eye ; flower if inches ; broad, dense 
truss. 2 feet. 
