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Hoffer. Frau Anton Buchner cannot be depended on as white, for 
it is quite apt to sport and come variegated. However, it is a 
good, large flower. Independence. There is also a good white 
in my list, No. 301, it is a large flower which comes in bloom when 
almost all others have passed. 
Pink: The pink list is perhaps the longest of all. Elizabeth 
Campbell has been the leader; it is a large flower and good color, 
but it has not the large heads that are so desirable. Kucken. 
Lumineux. Le Soleil. The last two have frequently been sent 
out for Elizabeth Campbell—they look similar but have not 
the color. Le Sesostue, Inspector F.lpel, Eifel Tower, are all 
good. 
A new Phlox with a large flower, Mrs. W. G. Harding, is a 
beautiful pink with a crimson eye. It is not yet on the market, 
but when it is sent out it will, 1 think, be the real sensation in 
Phlox. 
Crimson and Maroon: Von Hochberg. Le Compte. Brun¬ 
ette. The last cannot be classed with the first for it is rather 
more crimson than maroon. 
Lavender: W. C. Egan, The true stock has a large flower 
with a large dark eye. Crepuscule. Griffion. Prof. Schlieman. 
Sinbad. 
Salmon: Oberon shows a rather small head but good color. 
Siebold is better, shows the larger head, but it is too red to go 
with the salmon. Emberesmend. 
Lilac: Obergartner Wittig. Deliverance. De Miribel. Ex¬ 
quisite. Esperance. 
Variegated: Dr. Andria Kilmer. Cyclon. Le Reve. Frau 
Anton Buchner. 
Phlox will not come true from seeds even as to color, i. e., if 
seeds are gathered from white, the seedlings will not come white, 
or at least not a large percentage, and that applies to others as 
well. 
Phlox seed should be sown as soon as gathered and not left 
until spring. It is usually late when the seed is ready as it 
ripens after the frost in the fall. The best way is to cover 
the seeds with sand instead of soil, for the seeds then have a 
chance to lift up the sand, and as already suggested, care 
should be taken not to cover them too deeply. If perchance 
some of them are washed out of the ground, it need not cause any 
worry as they will anchor themselves again. 
When plants are received from a nursery, they should be 
unpacked immediately and inspected and such care taken of 
them as they may need. The best way is to dip the roots in 
water when they are received, for they are apt to be dried out, 
and, if moist, will start growth more quickly than if dry. Our 
aim is to get as much root action in the fall as is possible, for if 
large roots form in the fall, the plants will start out in the 
spring with more vigor and hence larger and better flowers will 
follow. 
Plant an inch deeper than they were in the nursery, and in 
planting care should be taken to spread out the roots and plant 
firmly. Use the feet in firming so that the soil will be solid 
around the roots. This is very important in fall planting for 
if the plants are not firm, the frost is apt to heave them, 
causing a good deal of damage during the winter and spring. 
Cultivate the same as any garden crop, that is, hoe, weed, 
and water when necessary. 
TREES FOR OUR CHILDREN’S CHILDREN 
One of the Wider Phases of Gardening Fathered by a 
Co-Worker of the New National Garden Association 
ggPgHE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION, organ- 
11 fa ml ' zec ^ more t* 1311 forty years ago, has been during its career 
an i m P or tant factor in bringing about legislation in the 
interest of forestry and in developing a public senti¬ 
ment regarding our forests and what they mean to our people. 
This organization has a membership of about thirteen thousand 
and is rapidly growing in numbers. It is already affiliated with 
the new National Garden Association and has recently effected 
a consolidation with the National Conservation Association, 
which for the last thirteen years has done important work in 
the conservation field under the direction of Gifford Pinchot, the 
present Governor of Pennsylvania. 1 he President of the 
American Forestry Association is Colonel Henry S. Graves, 
formerly Chief Forester of the Federal Forest 
Service, now Dean of the School of Forestry at 
Yale University. 
Naturally the solution of the forestry problem 
can not be left with the Government, but it 
is necessary for the individual states and for 
land owners and other private individuals to 
participate in the undertaking. The American Forestry 
Association is seeking to build up, through its educational work, 
a public sentiment which will bring about legislation in the 
different states as well as federal legislation; and it is reaching 
out to stimulate individuals throughout the country to take a 
part in this wide enterprise. The phases of its activity are 
many and varied, including the protection of our native plants 
and flowers, the safeguarding of the scenic beauties of our 
country, intelligent conservation of wild life and of the fish 
resources in forest waters. This group of disinterested gardeners 
is also seeking to build up the recreational uses of the public 
forests and parks, and is a staunch advocate of the national 
and state parks and the prevention of their commercialization 
and the despoiling of their natural features in any 
way. 
Every citizen whose vision extends beyond his 
own home plot into the broader, more impersonal 
but none the less vital field of national gardening 
will find in the American Forestry Association an 
ally of consequence. 
National Garden Week for 1924 
April 20— 26 tk 
