PENTSTEMON {Beard Tongue) (C) 
Not nearly so popular as it deserves. Of most graceful habit. 
PuBEscENS —Giant Hybrids—Growing two feet in height, sur¬ 
mounted with pinkish violet flowers. It enjoys lots of sun. We 
have a large surplus of these and the price is correspondingly 
attractive. 
PHLOX DECUSSATA {Hardy Phlox) 
What is a garden in August without the hardy Phlox. Seldom, 
however, do we see Phlox really well grown. The ground should 
be well enriched with rotted manure and bone meal, and the 
plants must be lifted and divided every three years. Cut the dead 
flower stalks, otherwise the seedlings pushing up in the clump 
will make you think your glorious Phloxes have reverted to tlie 
dreaded magenta. Sulphur, for mildew. 
Dawn —(G) 
Elizabeth Campbell —Clear salmon-pink, not a tall or robust 
grower. (G) 
Miss Lingard —Not a decussata, but a suffructicosa, flowering a 
month earlier than the others. But what a flowering! Glistening 
heads of white on lustrous stalks, impervious to disease. (D) 
Maid Marion —Strong growing lilac. (E) 
Matilda —Medium lavender. (D) 
Thor —Salmon pink with red eye. A faithful doer. (D) 
PHLOX SUBULATA {Moss Pin\) (F) 
Lilacina —Pale blue flowers in May. The only subulata which is 
clear in color and not too vulgar. 
‘^There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners!* 
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