should be well enriched with rotted manure and bone meal, 
and the plants must be lifted and divided every three years. 
Cut the deadflower stalks, otherwise the seedlings pushing up 
in the clump will make you think your glorious Phloxes have 
reverted to the dread magenta. Sulphur, for mildew. 
Dawn —(G)—Blush Pink. 
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) 
PLATYCODON ( Balloon Flower) (D) 
Grandiflorum —These plants, to be entirely eye filling must be 
given at least 18 inches every way, and allowed to remain 
where placed. Then you will avoid the straggly appearance, 
and gain a bushy plant with lovely foliage, and broad blue— 
first balloon, then bell-shaped flowers. They provide the best 
blue after the delphinium subsides. You can't grow platycodon 
with wet feet or sodden soil. 
PYRETHRUM ( Painted Daisy) (C) 
Finest Mixed —Described often as “showy'’. We think not. 
The daisy like flower on its long slender stem is too airy, too 
frail to be showy. One of the very best for floribundity, if you 
shear the plant after blooming, and for cut flowers, they’re a 
delight. Must have generous feeding, and freedom from clay. 
Divide every three years. The proper time to transplant, is 
after the June flourish of bloom. 
“Of all the floures in the mede 
Than love l most these floures white and rede, 
Soch that men callen daisies in our toun ." 
Prologue—Legend of Good Women. 
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