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NEW PERENNIAL PHLOXES. 
Nat. Order .— Polemoniaceje. 
valved, valves separating from a septiferous column, Seeds 
solitary in the cells, erect from the base, plano-convex.—Peren¬ 
nial herbs, sometimes under-shrubs, erect or prostrate, com¬ 
mon in North America; rare in Northern Asia; lower leaves 
opposite, upper alternate, sessile, quite entire, flowers terminal, 
panicled or corymbose, lilac or rose-coloured, rarely red, blue 
or white.— ( Endlicher , Gen. Plant. 3819.) 
Generic Character. — Phlox, Linnaeus. — Calyx campan- 
ulate, prismatic, five toothed. Corolla hypogynous, funnel- 
shaped, tube long, limb five-parted. Stamens five, inserted in 
the middle of the tube of the corolla, included ; of unequal 
length. Ovary ovate, three-celled. Ovules solitary in the cells ; 
ascending from the base of the central angle, anatropous. 
Style terminal, simple ; stigma trifid, Capsule ovate, three- 
celled, or by abortion one- or two-celled, loculicidally three- 
The varieties figured on the opposite plate are cross-bred garden forms obtained through several generations ; 
the original parents having been P. sufffuticosa and P. suaveolens. 
Garden Varieties :— 
1. T. Abd-el Medschid Khan .■—Flowers large almost exactly circular, creamy white with a delicate pink eye. 
A free blooming and very fine variety. 
2. P. Paid et Virginie. —Flowers of good form, deep rosy lilac. Blooms freely in large heads. 
3. P. Madame Viard .—Flowers blush-white, with a central star of rosy lilac. A free bloomer and very 
pretty. 
Y) ESCRIP IT OX.—Showy hardy herbaceous perennial herbs, with fibrous roots and erect steins, 
iLJ hearing dark green leaves, ovate-oblong, more or less elongated, 'acuminate at the apex, often 
cordate at the base. The flowers are arranged in fastigiate pyramidal branched panicles termi¬ 
nating the stems, the branches much subdivided; the flowers numerous, ciowded, tciA showy. 
The variety Ahd-el Vledschid Elian is one of the finest that haie yet been laised, as 1 eg aids 
the size and perfection of its blossoms, which often measure larger than a half-ci own piece, 
and are of exquisite form. It is a free grower, a foot or rather more in height, blooming abun¬ 
dantly and very early, that is, in June and July. Paul et Virginie is also an eaily bloomm, 
producing large heads of finely-shaped middle sized rosy blossoms. Madame Viard grows rather 
more than a foot high, and this too has large well-formed blossoms ot a blush white, prettiiy 
marked with rosy lilac at the base of the divisions of the limb of the corolla the maikings foim- 
ing a ray of five stars around the eye. 
History, &c.— For the accompanying figures we are indebted to Mr. John Salter, r .H.S. of 
the Versailles Nursery, Hammersmith, by whom these and many other fine lliloxes are intio- 
duced to the English cultivators. They were raised in Germany, and Mr. Salter has obligingly 
furnished the following particulars of them origin“ Of the Phloxes I have two divisions, the 
one consisting of varieties raised from cross-bred forms obtained from hybrids (oiiginally 
produced in Belgium and Germany about twenty years since) between P. snffruticosa and P. 
suaveolens; the other, of varieties raised in the same way from hybrids betv een ±. decussata 
andP. o mni flora or suaveolens. The former grow from twelve to twenty inches high, and bloom 
very early (June and July) and not unfrequently a second time in September and October; the 
colours are varied, and very beautiful. They require a light soil and a warm situation. The 
varieties of the latter division grow Rom twelve to twenty-four inches high, and have large 
heads of flowers, which are white, pink, rose-colour, and sometimes mottled or striped; they 
have an agreeable odour, and bloom Rom August till November. They are perfectly hardy, and 
like a light loamy soil."—M. 
PROPERTIES OE THE PHLOX. 
By Mr. G. GLENNY, F.H.S. 
JHHIS is one of those windmill kind of flowers, which naturally look poor and weedy, but which should 
A he in almost every respect of an opposite character. The following aie the piincipa points iO )c 
kept in Hew in attempting their improvement:— .. . 
1. Every individual bloom should be perfectly round and flat, without notch, division, or serrature. 
2. The corolla should he thick, and smooth. 
3. The individual flowers should, by them number, form a good head or truss, touchmg each other, 
rising hi the centre, and not confused. 
4. The colour should he dense, and pme; if white, or yellow, or straw, or cream colour, it should 
he decided, and all over alike ; if striped or spotted, the marking should be uniform and well de¬ 
fined. 
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