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was flowered. The leaves are 6 inches to a foot long, with the margins 
recurved, and the flowers are pale yellow, with a dash of golden yellow 
about the throat, numerous, and forming open globose heads on rather 
tall scapes. It blooms in August, and will form a very nice addition to the 
many hardy Primulas which already adorn our gardens. 
M. 
HOW TO GROW PHLOXES. 
To have Phloxes in the finest possible condition, they must not he 
planted out in the borders and left to their fate; hut they must have 
some cultural attention. The following course of treatment may he re¬ 
commended :— 
In February, pot a few plants in light, rich, loamy soil, and place them 
in a greenhouse or frame. They will soon make shoots long enough for 
cuttings ; and these can he quickly rooted in a moderate hotbed, with 
Verbenas or other bedding plants ; and after being properly potted and 
hardened off, they will be fit to plant out in May. 
In selecting a situation for planting out, a spot where there is a little 
shelter from strong winds is to be preferred, hut otherwise it should he fully 
exposed to all the air and sunshine. The soil should be enriched with 
some good rotten manure, and when the plants get strong they should be 
liberally watered with liquid manure. They should he planted about 
15 inches apart for the first season’s blooming, which will commence about 
August, and continue till the end of September; but in the ensuing spring 
they should be replanted, placing them 18 or 20 inches apart, for the second 
year’s blooming, which will begin in July, and, if the plants are prevented 
from seeding, will go on till the end of September. Care should be taken to 
have a stake to each plant, and as the shoots advance in growth they 
should he securely tied to it. If this us neglected, they are very likely to he 
snapped off close to the ground. A slight wind is sufficient to do this, and 
then the plant is spoiled for the season. 
If a Phlox is well managed, it will be in its prime in the second year of 
its flowering. Early in the spring, when the shoots are 8 or 4 inches long, 
it is a good plan to thin them. A good two-year-old plant will generally 
start more shoots than are required, but five or six only should be left to 
go up for flowering. The spare shoots make excellent cuttings, but they 
can seldom be rooted early enough to flower the same year like those 
obtained from plants put into a greenhouse in February. However, the 
plants obtained from these cuttings make fine flowering plants for the next 
year. 
But little can be done in arranging Phloxes according to their height; 
indeed, in this respect (with two or three exceptions), there is very little 
difference between them. The first year they generally flower when about 
15 or 18 inches high, hut the same plants in the second year will grow 
2 or 8 feet high. \ 
A continual succession of young plants should be kept up by cuttings. 
Dividing the old roots is a clumsy method of increasing the stock, and 
plants obtained in this way seldom produce fine healthy foliage and good 
flowers. A Phlox should be thrown away when it gets over two years old, 
and a young plant put in it£ place. Sometimes Phloxes may be placed 
here and there in mixed borders or shrubberies, where they help to make 
a garden gay, and furnish a supply of cut flowers ; hut the spare plants 
