Like the rye-field, I found the so-called desert of Mono blooming in a high state of natural cultivation with the wild rose, cherry, aster, and the delicate abronia; also innumerable gilias, phloxes, poppies, and bush-compositae.

Even the tops of the mountains are blessed with flowers,dwarf phlox, polemonium, ribes, hulsea, etc.

Here are verbenas, poppies, lavender and marigolds, sweet-william, hollyhocks and columbine, phlox, and larkspur, and meadowsweet, and heart's-ease, just as they were when Thomasine Musgrave, Matocton's first châtelaine, was wont to tend them; and of all floral parvenus the gardens are innocent.

There was the less formal phlox of a pinkish purple; deer's-tongue, white and yellow; frail anemones, both pink and white; small but stately violets, and the wake-robin with its wine-red centre among long green leaves.

A gap in the green walls led into the flower garden, and there, down the path between tall rows of phlox and larkspurs and anchusa, of blue heaped on blue, Aunt Adeline came holding up a tall bunch of flowers, blue on her white gown, blue on her own milk-white and blue.

The wild Pinks burst in crimson fire, The Phlox' bright clusters shine, And Prairie-cups are swinging free To spill their airy wine.

The Phlox grew here in all its native grace and delicacy, where it had never known the fostering hand of Art.

The treasures I there collected were black terrapins with orange spots, baby frogs the size of a chestnut, thrush's eggs, and stems of purple phlox.

The sun shone brightly, the woods were green, and the meadows were gay with phlox and buttercups.

This had, for two or three days, disputed the ground with the lupine and phlox.

One very common flower resembles our cardinal flower, though not of so deep a color, another is very like rocket or phlox, but smaller and of various colors, white, blue and purple.

Between the house and gate a green lawn was crossed by a gravelled walk, with borders of phlox; beyond the borders, on either side, were flowering shrubs, and at equal distances from the walk, circular beds of scarlet tulips and yellow daffodils.

Here you go between borders all in bloom, phlox and peonies, and there are pansies and some early dahlias, and there's a yellow rosebush out.

"We've decided on pink candytuft for the border and single pink hollyhocks for the background with foxgloves right in front of them to cover up the stems at the bottom where they haven't many leaves and a medium height phlox in front of that for the same reason.

"It was rather late so I planted seeds that would hurry up; sweet alyssum for a border, of course, and white verbenas and balsam, and petunias, and candytuft and, phlox and stocks and portulaca and poppies.

Often he had lain awake at night, restless with the memory of heliotrope, and phlox, and mignonette, and afternoons quiet except for the sound of bees.

Alfred Putz (A); 20Dec60; R268068. Hardy phlox.

Alfred Putz (A); 20Dec60; R268068. Hardy phlox.

Celia told him this on the third day, late in the afternoonso late that the westering sun was already touching the crests of the oak woods, and all the thickets had turned softly purple like the bloom on a plum; the mounting scent of phlox from the garden was growing sweeter, and the bats fluttered and dipped and soared in the calm evening sky.

Prometh., 996-1006 pros tauta, rhipthesthô men aithaloussa phlox, leykoptherps de niphadi kai bronthêmasin chthonhiois kykhatô phanta kahi tarasshetô gnhampsei gar ouden tôndhe m' eiselthetô se mhêpot, hôs egô, Dios gnhômên phobêtheis, thêlhynoys genhêsomai, kai liparhêsô ton mhega stygohymenon gynaikomhimois hyptihysmasin cherhôn, lyshai me dhesmôn tônde toy pantos oheô.

It's nothing but phlox.

You might have done better than bring cartloads of phlox and larkspur a thousand miles.

Phloxes and marigolds grew untidily about their doorways, and straggly roses, starved a little by the chalk soil, looked in at their latticed windows.

Beyond the cherry-red phloxes outside it, the ground fell rapidly to the village, rising again beyond the houses to a great stubble field, newly shorn.

29 Cyclamen Coum Round-leaved Cyclamen l. 30 hederaefolium Ivy-leaved ditto l. 31 Lysimachia dubia Purple Loosestrife l. 32 Phlox pilosa Hairy Lychnidea l. 33 - ovata Oval-leaved ditto l. 34 - suffruticosa Shrubby ditto l.