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House 
It Might Have 
Grown There! 
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Cedar Shingles! 
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lines mark changing patterns on its surfaces. Clinging, 
climbing things acclaim its affinity. It belongs; it is as 
natural as the bark of trees. 
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n All-American Flower 
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multiply. So then, if one is setting 
out to purchase new plants, one need 
only to consider form and color. As to 
form most of us wish the full, large 
flowered types. Other things being 
equal, I for one, prefer the newer crea¬ 
tion whose individual flowerets may 
reach the size of a silver half dollar 
to the older sorts that may only cover 
a penny, and as to color most of us 
will agree that what we wish are the 
clear pure tones either in solid colors 
or in combinations rather than weak 
washed out tints of doubtful character 
and such as fade into streaked and 
splotched nondescripts in the sun. 
Now if one were ordering white 
phloxes there are several possibilities. 
Von Lassburg and Independence are 
pure white but not quite up to my 
standard in size. Taking everything 
into consideration Frau Antoine Buch¬ 
ner is probably the best of all white 
phloxes. Last summer the editor of 
one of the prominent garden journals 
on a visit to my garden in phlox time 
had his attention drawn to some par¬ 
ticularly handsome specimens of Frau 
Buchner then in their prime. He ad¬ 
mired them but ended with the remark, 
“But it isn't really a white phlox”, 
which is in a measure true, for the pink 
normally confined to the outside of the 
base of the flower will now and then 
show up in narrow streaks through the 
white of the petals and again will so 
completely overrun them as to make 
an entirely pink flower of it. This is 
really a great pity for of all tall white 
phloxes Frau Antoine Buchner at its 
best is incomparably the finest. It is 
a robust grower and bears magnificent 
heads of very large flowers. One 
should watch it, however, and pull up 
and destroy all specimens that mark¬ 
edly show a pinkish tendency. 
Dwarf Phlox 
Another prime favorite with me and 
one which I recommend without any 
reservation whatever is the beautiful 
dwarf phlox known as Tapis Blanc. 
Here is a creamy white that never 
shows any trace of another tint. The 
truss is very large and compact and 
made up of the largest flowerets of any 
white phlox that I have ever seen. By 
actual measure I have found them an 
inch-and-three-eighths in diameter. The 
accompanying photograph gives some 
idea of what a two year old plant of 
Tapis Blanc should look like. Its 
proper position is in front of the taller 
sorts where it forms a perfect border 
to a large informal planting of phloxes 
and other perennials. I have found 
the very small first year plants grown 
from root cuttings of the fall before 
most useful in formal edgings or bor¬ 
ders. These small plants grow only 10" 
or 12" tall and for a very long time 
will carry perfect heads of bloom, 
sometimes one to a plant and often two 
or three. The small size of the plants 
allows of their being set close enough 
together in the row to make a very 
nearly solid line of white when the 
buds open. Older plants will grow 
taller, perhaps V/z ’, and sometimes 2’. 
Tapis Blanc begins blooming a week 
or so ahead of the bulk of the phloxes 
and lasts in condition unusually long. 
If the first heads are left undisturbed 
they will fill out again with new buds 
and so form perfect trusses twice on 
the same stalk. This much for the 
white phloxes. 
I have grown a considerable number 
of the pink phloxes. For a good rich 
clear pink I have found nothing 
superior to Gruppenkoenigin. This is 
called a flesh pink, a trifle deeper than 
that to be quite accurate. It is, how¬ 
ever, a very lovely color and to be 
highly recommended. Inspector Epel, 
just a hint more lavender in tone, is 
in some lights hardly distinguishable 
from the former. This is an unusually 
late flowering phlox and useful on that 
account. Both have darker eyes. 
Some Colorful Varieties 
Twice I have purchased plants of the 
new and highly praised Rijnstrom but 
for some unaccountable reason lost 
them and so cannot speak of it from 
first hand experience. 
For a very light pink sometimes 
described as a flower having a large 
white center bordered with pale rose, 
Iduna is particularly good. This and 
Eugene Danzvilliers are, so far as my 
experience goes, the most distinctive 
and beautiful of the more delicately 
colored phloxes. The latter is a dainty 
lilac-blue and like Iduna has the white 
center.. 
Of the pinks bordering on salmon the 
very best perhaps are Elizabeth Camp¬ 
bell and Eifel Tower, the former best 
described as pale salmon changing to 
pink at the center, and the latter as 
salmon pink with a crimson eye. Last 
season a plant of Eifel Tower in my 
garden attracted a great deal of atten¬ 
tion. It is a tall grower and bears 
extraordinarily large trusses of large 
flowers. Furthermore, its color lasts 
well. 
Of the true salmons the best phlox 
I have ever seen is G. A. Strohlein. 
This, perhaps the most brilliant of all 
phloxes, is truly a magnificent sort of 
which too much praise could hardly 
be said. Its flowerets are extremely 
large, its salmon scarlet color clear 
and lasting. It has a deep red center 
which seems to increase the intensity 
of its main color. 
Gen. Van Heutz, clear Salmon with 
a large white eye is also one of the 
good sorts in this color. 
Red phloxes fall naturally into two 
groups, the clear reds, if anything tend¬ 
ing to warm coppery tones, and those 
which are colder in hue as if there 
were some blue in their coloring pig¬ 
ment. The former class is in general 
more popular, though I myself am 
coming, on rather long acquaintance, to 
like the latter almost equally well. Of 
the blue toned reds the best is perhaps 
Rosenberg. I have particularly rejoiced 
in a great mass of this at a little dis¬ 
tance on a cloudy day. and again in the 
warmer sunlight of late afternoon. In 
the catalogues this is usually described 
as rich carmine-violet with a blood red 
center. Another favorite in this group 
but much darker in color is Richard 
Strauss. Whenever possible this variety 
should be planted where it will at all 
times receive full sun, as in shadow it 
is dull and ugly. The effect in sunlight, 
however, more than makes up for this 
handicap and makes planting it well 
worth while. 
Of those 4 tending to the warmer 
tones I have found Ferdinand Cortez 
one of the best. It is not quite as tall 
as some other phloxes, but it bears 
large heads of bloom of a very rich red 
with a coppery cast. Sometimes the 
petals of this variety are minutely 
streaked with white. 
The darkest red in phloxes is prob¬ 
ably found in that known as Comte 
Von Hochberg. This is an exception¬ 
ally dark and pure crimson, conceded 
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