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An All-American Flower 
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by all the best of its color, and by 
many as one of the most beautiful of 
all phloxes. 
There is a considerable group of 
phloxes having the main part of the 
petals white and the center of the 
flower pink or red. Of several such 
which I have grown the well known 
Europa is as good as any, and really 
they are so much alike that most 
gardens need but one of them. In 
Europa the medium sized red center 
is very clear cut and distinct while in 
some others it is larger and blends 
into the white. Salome and Josephine 
Gerbeaux are both good phloxes in this 
class, neither, however, is as distinctive 
as the first named. 
Another group of phloxes show red 
centers which pass gradually through 
varying tones of pink or lavender to 
a white border. Crepuscule or Evening 
is perhaps one of the best of these. 
It is a large flowered sort and distinc¬ 
tive in color, a truss of it having the 
appearance of a grey mass touched 
with crimson. 
I can not begin to name even all the 
phloxes I have grown during the past 
ten years. Most of the newer, better 
sorts have been among them. These 
which I have named already are to my 
mind the best of all those I have had 
any experience with. The great mass 
of the others have perhaps been nearly 
identical with some of those named, or 
the colors have been quick to fade, or 
the flowers have been small, any one 
of which considerations would likely 
be enough to cause their exclusion from 
my list. A dozen or two large flowered 
phloxes in good clear colors are all the 
varieties any well ordered garden needs, 
and why spend time growing a be¬ 
wildering assortment of small flowered 
insipidly colored, or inferior plants. 
It is always well to keep track of the 
best and most promising new intro¬ 
ductions for it is doubtful, I think, if 
we have reached the limit of phlox color 
range. 
In the matter of cultivation the phlox 
is less exacting than many another 
hardy plant. It needs rich soil and 
sunlight and either a fairly moist situa¬ 
tion or thorough cultivation. The point 
to remember is that the young plants 
always give the finest trusses and the 
largest flowers. A phlox plant is 
usually considered to be at its best 
when it is two years old. And the way 
to keep them in this condition is by 
constant division. Not more than 
four or five stalks should be allowed 
to a plant if one wishes the best results. 
Better far throw half your stock away 
than let it become overcrowded. Keep¬ 
ing them young and thrifty is the best 
protection against disease. 
They are notoriously hardy. I never 
knew one to winterkill, even here in 
northern New York and in what we 
sometimes experience and call an open 
winter, and that without any winter 
protection other than that afforded 
by such leaves as blew into the beds 
in the fall. 
New varieties or single plants are to 
be multiplied in various ways. The 
simplest is by division of the plant in 
fall or spring when it is dormant. This 
is done by lifting the plant out of the 
ground and if it pulls apart easily, by 
separating the stalks with some of the 
new buds and a portion of the root 
attached.to each. If the lower growth 
is hard and woody and does not break 
readily, a sharp knife or even the edge 
of the spade blade will accomplish the 
work. These divisions reset before they 
have time to dry out, will live and make 
good plants the next season. Phloxes 
are also propagated by cuttings of the 
roots or the young shoots. The shoots 
root as readily as do geraniums and 
develop into first rate plants the 
second year. No matter how small the 
plant is when fall comes it may be left 
outdoors over winter. The inch long 
root cuttings made in spring or fall, 
preferably in fall, and planted an inch 
or two deep will sprout, and if trans¬ 
planted and given care through the 
early summer will bloom that same 
season. They will not, to be sure, grow 
quite as tall as the older plants but will 
very likely show a truss of remarkably 
large flowers. 
New varieties are obtained from 
sowing seed. This is to be recommended 
only, as the vast majority of seedlings 
are all but worthless. If seed is sown 
it should be done in the fall, for phlox 
seeds like those of the peony seem to 
find it necessary to lie in the ground 
over one winter before sprouting. 
NOTES OF TH E 
T HE Garden Club of Florida, was 
organized in March, 1922, by Mrs. 
Arthur G. Cummer, who is the Presi- 
President. Jacksonville and its envi¬ 
rons—Riverside Avenue, Orange Park, 
Hibernia, and Ortega—are represented 
in the active membership of 20 women, 
paying dues of three dollars each. At 
least once a month, from October to 
June, inclusive, and oftener in mid¬ 
season, meetings are held at the homes 
of members. Except for an occasional 
address, by some outside authority, the 
Garden Club prepares its own papers, 
largely on horticultural subjects, such 
as “Palms and Ferns”, “Roses”, “Bulbs 
for Summer Bloom”, etc. Each topic 
of a meeting is introduced by a “roll 
call”; for instance, in October, “Day of 
Annuals”, roll call—“Your Favorite An¬ 
nual”, November, “Nature’s Garden”, 
roll call—“Roadside Flowers.” On this 
last occasion, besides a Paper by Mrs. 
Giles Wilson on “A Garden of Native 
Wild Flowers”, there were competitive 
demonstrations of arrangement of flow¬ 
ers and grasses. The names of the win¬ 
ners of honors during the year will be 
GARDEN CLUBS 
published in the next year book. In 
January the program gave “A Day of 
Gardens”, roll call—“The Most Beauti¬ 
ful Garden You Have Even Seen, a 
paper being read on ‘The Garden at 
Mount Vernon”, by Mrs. Thomas Den¬ 
ham; “Little French Gardens” by Mrs. 
John L. Roe; and “Gardens Overseas” 
by Mrs. Raymond C. Turck. In addi¬ 
tion, a test in landscaping a plot 100' x 
ISO' was conducted, ten members sub¬ 
mitting plans. The subject of another 
meeting being “Birds”, the roll call was 
“Our Feathered Friends”, after which 
Mrs. Wellington G. Cummer spoke of 
the “Birds and Flowers of the Bible”, 
and Mrs. Courtland Buckham described 
“Hospitality for Birds”. In February a 
bulb exhibit was held. When “Color in 
the Garden” is considered, in May, the 
roll call is for “Blue Flowers”, which 
will be followed by Mrs. Waldo E. 
Cummer’s paper on “Color Combina¬ 
tions”. A competitive demonstration of 
flower arrangement will also be a 
feature of the program. In June “The 
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