plants should be well secured to neat stakes, as they are ex¬ 
ceedingly brittle; when it is desired to increase them, they 
should be taken up and potted, and their growth encouraged. 
As soon as the shoots are long enough, they should be taken off 
and placed round the edge of a pot; they will then root.rapidly, 
and may be gradually hardened off so as to be fit to plant out 
in May. 
•/ 
The varieties which we have figured are some of the re¬ 
cent introductions from France, and we are indebted to Mr. 
John Standish, of the Royal Nurseries, Bagshot and Ascot, 
for the opportunity of figuring them. Madame la Comtesse de 
Bresson (fig. 1) is a white flower of excellent shape and sub¬ 
stance, with a brilliant rosy carmine eye. Le Vesuve (fig. 2) is, 
in the condition in which we saw it and in which Mr. Andrews 
has represented it, beautifully striped, but we fear that this is 
not constant, as it is described as of a purplish-amaranth colour, 
in either state very beautiful. Eclair (fig. 3) is a flower of 
great brilliancy, a rich rosy-scarlet, with a dark-crimson centre, 
forming altogether a very effective flower. Little dependence 
can be placed in the dwarf character ascribed to Phloxes, as 
those which are eighteen inches high the first season frequently 
attain the height of two or three feet in the following one, but 
none of those figured are amongst the more robust-growing 
varieties. 
