Garden Phlox 
about three inches of the top is above the soil. This 
will cause some of the green stems to be under 
ground, which is all right, as the plant will throw out 
roots all along the stem. Plant about two inches 
apart in the row, keep them in place until the row is 
finished by throwing in a little soil. Now stand up, 
fill in with soil, and with the foot tamp it as hard as 
you can. Water it well, and then shade it in some 
manner for a few days. Coarse hay thrown lightly 
over it will do. I'here are quite a number of species 
of spring and summer blooming phlox worthy of cul¬ 
tivation, among them being Phlox aniocna, a pink 
purple; P. Carolina, of same color; P. divaricata, 
with sweet-scented, lavender-blue flowers; and a 
white variety, P. pilosa, the hairy phlox, with pinkish 
purple blooms; P. 
re plans, a creep¬ 
ing form, flowers a 
rose-purple; P. Stel¬ 
lar i a, growing eight 
to ten inches and 
hearing pure white 
flowers in summer; 
P. ovata; our native 
P. divaricata, and 
others. A garden 
might he c o n- 
s t r u c t e d o f them 
alone that would 
bloom from spring 
to frost. 
The term “hardy 
phlox,” is generally 
applied to the differ¬ 
ent forms of the tall 
growing and late 
blooming varieties. 
All of these are 
mainly garden hybrids of Phlox paniciilata and P. 
maciilata, and are so intermingled and hybridized 
that their parents would not know them. The 
unpleasant purple and magenta tones of color for¬ 
merly so predominating, have been eliminated. There 
are hundreds of named varieties, and being easily 
raised from seed, some nurserymen send out their 
own raisings under names they have given them, 
and if one desires to duplicate any he may see on a 
friend’s grounds, it is well to obtain the nurseryman’s 
name who furnished it and order from him. d here 
are, however, many good varieties imported from 
European growers who have named them there, and 
these, being distributed among different seedsmen 
here, may be obtained true to name from different 
houses. This class of phlox may he divided into two 
sections, the summer blooming and the fall blooming 
varieties. Miss Lingard, a free flowering white, is 
one of the best of the early blooming ones. 
I he phlox, “W. C. Egan,” here illustrated is a 
chance seedling that came up in my garden, and be¬ 
longs to this section, resembling Miss Lingard some¬ 
what, but differs in having a white eye. ft is a strong 
grower and carries good foliage down to the ground. 
d'astes differ so, as to likes and dislikes in colors of 
flowers and there are so many colors in this group, 
that 1 will not attemjit to name any of the late bloom¬ 
ing ones. 
Their requirements are simple hut imperative if 
good trusses of bloom and good foliage are desired. 
These are a fair amount of sunshine, and a rich, 
moist ground. 
They are shallow rooters, and if the sun dries out 
the top earth, their flow'er heads are small and they 
become bare of foliage at tbe base. Some varieties 
are inclined to lose 
their lower foliage 
any ay, and should 
he planted behind 
lower growing 
material. Mulch¬ 
ing benefits them 
1 m m e n s e 1 y a n d 
copious watering 
overhead is an aid 
and keeps down the 
red spider. Very 
o 1 d manure, well 
broken up, makes a 
tidy looking mulcb, 
or old leaf mould m 
vbich may be incor¬ 
porated one quarter 
in bulk of powdered 
sheep manure, the 
benefits of wdiich 
will seej) down to 
the plant at each 
wetting. Grass cut from the lawn is good, but 
should not be put on thick enough to mat and heat 
and thus injure any plant stems in contact with it. 
They are tall growers and apt to be thrown 
over by wind and storms; hence, staking becomes 
necessary. 
ff the slender points of bamboo, readily obtainable 
at any seedsman’s store, are used, they may be staked 
without assuming a stiff', unnatural look. Eise a thin, 
brown, wrapping twine, and in tying them or any 
plant, don’t hug them up as you would a prodigal 
child, but choose four or five strong outer shoots, and 
set the stakes to them, drawing the plant stems out¬ 
side the stake and let them run up along it, thus 
hiding to a great extent, its presence. l ie in place, 
then run the string around from stake to stake. If 
the center stems seem to have too much room and are 
inclined to lop over, run cross strings, and if necessary, 
loop the string once around the stem after you have 
placed it in the position it belongs. 
NEW PHLOX, “w. C. EGAN ” 
Sedum spectahile in front 
