HOUSE AND GARDEN 
October, 
1914 
cutting off the dead flower heads, of 
course; and then tonic given in the shape 
of liquid manure and perhaps a very little 
bone meal. And presently it will be send¬ 
ing out a new set of buds. The one great 
secret of success with heliotropes, accord¬ 
ing to her, and according to everything 
that I have been able to find out from 
books and everyone else, is never to let 
them get dry. They must not be wet, but 
they must never actually stop growing an 
instant, even between seasons. 
Phlox, an American Plant 
(Continued from page 220) 
repay good soil and good care — and one 
expert declares that there is no limit to 
the amount of enrichment they will assimi¬ 
late, and pay you for, in the added splen¬ 
dor of their flowers. Their most particu¬ 
lar aversion is to a heavy, cold, sticky clay, 
but if such a soil is lightened by adding 
leaf mold and sand until it no longer is 
sticky, and in addition to this is worked 
deep before the plants are set — say to 
twenty inches—they will grow nicely even 
in its unfavorable conditions. 
Water in abundance they should have, 
and where it is possible to drench the 
ground thoroughly with the hose twice a 
week—when there are little or no rains — 
such care will_ pay, and assure the greatest 
success. In giving water, however, always 
be sure to give a great quantity, for a 
little on the surface is worse than nothing, 
inducing the roots to come up as it does, 
instead of to go down. 
It is perfectly possible to raise phlox 
from seed, and in quantity — but it is not 
possible to raise a particular variety which 
you may wish to increase in this way. For 
phloxes do not run true,” as the saying 
is, so to propagate a favorite plant you 
must resort to cuttings made of its stems, 
or to root division, rather than to the 
planting of seed from it. Cuttings are 
made from the young shoots that start in 
the spring on the outside of old clumps 
usually, the tendency of the clump always 
being to expand outward by means of such 
new growth. Such shoots may be taken 
off well down into the ground and set in a 
box of sandy soil exactly as if they were 
>oung plants, and this put in a frame un¬ 
til they make their own roots and thus get 
their independent start in life. After this 
start is well made plant them out wher¬ 
ever they are to dwell, setting them about 
eighteen inches apart. 
. A newer method of propagation, which 
insures a great number of little plants 
with very little work, is very highly rec¬ 
ommended by one well known horticul¬ 
turist. This method consists in lifting the 
parent plant — which you are desirous of 
increasing from one to one hundred or 
more—about the twentieth of October, or 
when the flowering season is about over. 
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