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Perennials for Different Purposes: Phlox

Aspidium marginale Margined Fern Asperula hexaphylla Woodruff Claytonia virginica Spring Beauty Convallaria majalis Lily-of-the-valley Hepatica triloba Hepatica Heuchera sanguinea Coral-bell Iris cristata Crested Iris Lamium maculatum Dead Nettle Mitchella repens Partridge Berry Myosotis palustris Forget-me-not Oenothera biennis Evening Primrose Phlox divaricata Wild Sweet William Phlox ovata Mountain Phlox Phlox stolonifera Creeping Phlox Phlox subulata Moss Pink Polemonium reptans Greek Valerian Polygonatum multiflorum Solomon's Seal Primula (in variety) Primrose Sanguinaria canadensis Bloodroot Saponaria ocymoides Rock Soapwort Trillium grandiflorum Large-flowered Wake Robin Tunica saxifraga Saxifrage-like Tunica Viola canadensis Canadian Violet Viola canina Dog-tooth Violet D. PERENNIALS FOR LONG FLOWERING PERIOD. Not only are perennials selected because of the colours of the flowers and other characteristics such as good blooming combinations, perpetual bloom, and good flowers, as shown in the following groups, but many times certain types are selected because of their long blooming period. Such plants as the yellow marguerite, the Shasta daisy, the blanket flower, and certain hardy phloxes, are very valuable in the garden because they produce flowers over a long blooming period, extending in instances for three or four weeks. Some of these plants require cutting back, like the larkspurs and nettle-leaved mulleins, thus causing them to produce a second crop of bloom. They are all useful to insure a bridging of the gaps between the flowering period of other sorts or to plant in those places where only one, or at most a few sorts, can be used. The tickseed, the Shasta daisy, the blanket flower, and the scabiosa all carry their bloom at intervals from June until frost, while the violet, the forget-me-not, and the toad-flax start in May and last until well into August.