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October, 
ting selection — and moves constantly up¬ 
hill, we might say, the better to impress 
the mind with the one real distinction 
which hybridization has left us between 
the early and late flowering kinds. For 
A brilliant red is Phlox coquilicot, a late blooming 
French hybrid 
A seedling with good markings—the sort of thing to 
work up to 
the late flowering 
phloxes are gener¬ 
ally taller than the 
early ones, al¬ 
though the early 
kinds bear their 
with faintly red¬ 
dened eye, and 
“Elizabeth Camp¬ 
bell,” one of the 
most brilliant and 
showy of pinks — a 
must not go in the company of any varie¬ 
ties having a hint of the so-difficult-to- 
avoid lavenders and lilacs and maroons, 
or there will be war. And then there is 
“Albion,” a fine strong-growing white, 
This annual, slellala, is a native of Texas. It has a 
variety of colorings 
blossoms in deeper panicles that are 
more nearly like a cone in form. 
The late ones have broad, flat heads 
of flowers—more like a cyme, al¬ 
though not quite so flattened. 
If any gap in the procession of 
bloom should be left through an 
error in calculation due to climatic 
or soil conditions, it is perfectly pos¬ 
sible to fill it by cutting back some 
of the late flowering plants early in 
the season, thus retarding the forma¬ 
tion of their flower heads. But with 
the right selection this will not be 
necessary. 
The earliest bloomers have not the 
range of color that comes with the 
late flowering varieties, but “Miss 
Lingard,” which is a lovely dazzling 
white with an eye of faint lilac, is 
beautiful enough to compensate for 
the deficiency in pinks and reds— 
when these are to come later. Then 
there is “Mrs. Dalrymple,” another 
white suffused with a blush and 
showing a scarlet eye; and “Hercu¬ 
les,” in rosy-lilac, if one likes that 
color. I do not; but that is not per¬ 
haps sufficient season for not men¬ 
tioning it. 
Coming along into July there is 
the fiery “Coquelicot, which is a A mass of mixed varieties showing the result of hybridization, which 
scarlet as vivid as flame, and which invariably develops sports 
salmon shade, lightened a bit with 
shadings and made vivid by a dark 
red eye; and “Tragedie,” very rich 
and dark in a carmine tone with 
vivid red eye; and “Jeanne d’Arc,” 
loveliest of late flowering white, pure 
and clear; and the dwarf “Tapis 
Blanc," with its enormous snowy 
flowers at a height of perhaps twen¬ 
ty-four inches from the ground—a 
veritable bank of snow. 
The growth of phlox starts very 
early in spring, therefore it is much 
better to plant in the fall—from the 
fifteenth of October on and into 
November being the accepted time. 
Be sure after setting out the plants 
that a mulch of leaves or strawy ma¬ 
terial is spread over the ground an 
inch or so deep, and after the ground 
itself has frozen, deepen this mulch 
to six or eight inches, to insure its 
staying frozen. Otherwise the 
newly planted roots, which have not 
had a chance to work their own way 
into and around the soil lumps, will 
be thrown out completely when a 
thaw comes. 
Almost any soil will suit these 
plants-—for they are hardy natives 
over all the length and breadth of 
the land. But they appreciate and- 
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