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first thing in the morning, after a 
cold and freezing night. 
Old plants should he divided at 
this time, if such division is con¬ 
templated ; and it should be contem¬ 
plated with everything that has been 
three years, at the most, in a place. 
Allowed to remain undivided longer 
than this, old plants grow root bound 
and so crowded that they cannot 
grow, much less blossom. It is not 
unusual for a choice variety to be 
crowded completely out of existence, 
and its place taken by worthless 
seedlings of itself which will come 
up around where it has stood. 
From one single strong clump it 
is possible to develop a great border 
full of plants in a season or two, be¬ 
tween division in the fall and “shoot 
cuttings” in the spring. These latter 
are the upstarting new shoots that 
appear around the old clump early 
in the spring. Cut them away from 
the old roots as far down below the 
ground’s surface as you can con¬ 
veniently cut them and plant in a 
box of sandy earth just as if they 
were the little plants that they look 
like. Before very long they will take 
root and then be ready to set out 
wherever you have predetermined, 
making them 18" apart each way if 
they are massed. But be sure in tak¬ 
ing these shoots off, in spring, that 
you get shoots and not seedlings that 
have come up around the old plant. 
Where to Plant Phlox 
The places where phlox may be 
grown in the garden are just such 
places as hollyhocks and larkspurs 
and foxgloves may occupy: against 
walls, against hedges, clumps here 
and there in the mixed border, or in 
borders devoted to one or two things 
only. Varying in height as the dif¬ 
ferent varieties do, one kind may 
form a background, another be 
planted before this, and a third used 
at the front to edge the border; but 
such a scheme runs the danger of 
monotony from the prevalence of 
one flower and leaf form. 
So a better arrangement is to fea¬ 
ture the phlox and use something of 
an entirely different character as a 
complementary growth. The old- 
fashioned yellow day lily combines 
delightfully with certain of the white 
or almost white phloxes, and as 
there are early and late flowering 
varieties of both these plants, a long 
season of bloom may be planned 
with them, all white and gold. 
Combinations 
A mass of phlox, Miss Lingard, 
back of hemerocallis, Queen of May, 
starts the display, sometime before 
June. Then Phlox crepuscule, com¬ 
bined with Hemerocallis flava, and 
phlox Alliion, with Hemerocallis 
Aurantiaca, will come next; follow 
these with phlox Jeanne d’Arc, 
Hemerocallis Thunbergii and Hcrnc- 
rocallis Kwanso fl. pi., and you will 
find that you have bloom clear 
through August. Thus a period of 
three months is covered. 
White lilies effectively combine 
with phlox, providing, of course, 
that you use an early flowering lily 
and not too early a phlox. Lilium 
speciosum album, planted in connec¬ 
tion with almost any of the midsea¬ 
son varieties, will give a lovely foil 
to them, and if the somewhat leggy 
stems of this are covered by a front 
planting of Polygonum compactum, 
the border will be perfect. This 
blooms in August and September, 
thus keeping company with the very 
latest phlox you can plant, if you 
choose to add this to the bed. Or 
by itself, polygonum will sustain the 
flowering period, after the phlox and 
lilies have gone by. 
Like so many plants, phlox is of 
two classes: annual and perennial. 
The annual kinds are all descendents 
of the original wild phlox found in 
Texas in 1834-5 by Drummond, and 
named in his honor, Phlox Drum- 
mondi. At home they call it Texan’s 
Pride. The star phlox, with its 
very deeply cut petals, giving the 
blossoms their stellar resemblance is 
a variety of this. 
Dependable Varieties 
Several species go to make up the 
perennial division; but only one or 
two stand out prominently as of 
special importance so far in develop¬ 
ing the mass of lovely hybrids that 
exist. Phlox paniculata is the prin¬ 
cipal one of these, generally cred¬ 
ited with being the origin of the 
great race of garden phloxes with 
which the world is blessed. This is 
a wild flower of the woods of Penn¬ 
sylvania and West and South, one 
of America’s most notable contribu¬ 
tions to the treasures of horticulture. 
Between it and Phlox maculate, the 
next most important, there is very 
little difference. 
The early flowering kinds, such as 
Miss Lingard, belong to a third 
species, the Phlox suffruticosa strain. 
These lack the brilliant color of the 
paniculata group, being mostly white 
or pale tints of lavender or rose. 
The suffusion of rose or rosy lilac 
shining over them, however, makes 
them surpassingly lovely. 
Another species is Phlox divari¬ 
cate, which has two or three vari¬ 
eties. This is the lavender flowered 
wild sweet william that carpets the 
fields in springtime, in the West; and 
it has recently come to the fore 
as one parent of a new hybrid spe¬ 
cies, called Phlox Arendsi, that has 
received much favorable notice. The 
other parent is the already well- 
known Phlox paniculata, or Phlox 
dccussata, as it is also called. The 
hybrid that lias resulted from the 
crossing of these two is a vigorous 
branching type of plant of rather 
lower growth than anything before 
produced. It begins to blossom late 
in May and continues for two 
months, keeping in good condition 
all of this time. The colors are all 
on the lilac and purple side, as might 
be expected. There is also a pure 
white. Owing to its low growth, this 
species is very valuable for fore¬ 
grounds and edgings. 
Phlox for Shaded Border 
A list of the varieties to use for a 
purple shaded border is given below. 
This is the only color scheme I 
would advise attempting with phlox, 
for the reason that all the pure col¬ 
ors are more effective when massed 
by themselves. In the purples and 
magentas this does not hold good, 
however, because any one of these 
shades alone is lacking in life and 
spirit. It is only in combination with 
other tones of the same shade that 
they acquire interest and reveal the 
full richness that is theirs. The order 
of the list is from light to dark. 
La Vague—pure mauve, with red eye. 
Mme. Paul Dutrie—lilac rose, or rosy 
lilac. 
Frau Rosalie Wildt—rosy mauve, 
with carmine eye. 
Eclaireur—rose magenta, with lighter 
halo. 
Champs Elysee—brilliant rose ma¬ 
genta. 
Widar—red violet. 
Bacchante—purple rose, with carmine 
eye. 
Von Hochberg—crimson purple. 
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