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PERENNIAL PHLOXES. 
These co'nsist ol an immense numberof varieties of every shade of color and 
marking. There is probably no plant among tlie herbaceous perennials tliat is so 
really valuable for the ’ccoiation of the garden as this one. 
In respect to hight, there are low-growers, from a foot to eighteen inches, and 
tail-growers, from two to three feet. 
The time of flowering of the different sorts varies from the middle of Spring 
to the very close of the Autumnal season. 
The flowers, which are .similar in form and size to the Annual Phlo.\, are pro¬ 
duced in large panicles, and are beautiful either singly or as a cluster ; the pips, 
when stemmed, are valuable to work into bouquets, or the flowers can be cut with 
their long stems, and used for decorating large rooms, halls or churches. 
Taking into consideration, then, all these qualities—the sizes of the different 
varieties, which admit their use for many purposes ; their continued blooming, b}' 
which they render the garden gay and cheerful through the whole season ; the 
beaut}^ of the flowers ; their adaptability to decorative purposes, and we have a 
combhiation of good traits in this plant which entitles it to a place in every garden. 
It thrives in almost every soil, and with little care. Every three or four years 
it will be found best to remove and.divide the plants, planting in a new situation. 
With such treatment the flowers will continue to be produced of large size, and 
perfect in form. 
We can furnish a large number of sorts, both of the tall-growing and dwarf¬ 
growing kinds. 
Prick—30 cents each, named varieties ; $2 per dozen. 
DAHLIAS. 
The Dahlia occupies a footing in the garden entirely its own. It has a sort of 
stately, dignified bearing, that commands respect, and yet its successful attempts 
at grace and beauty, in the arrangement of its petals, show that it has the charm- 
