f some member would give his experience.

Mrs. Sawyer: I think you will find bordeaux mixture is good as anything
for the rust on phlox. There is another mixture given for use in the
English gardens, but their conditions are not the same as ours. It seems
that changing the location of the phlox may do it good. Phlox is a plant
that wants free circulation of air. Sometimes they get crowded in the
garden, and a combination of heat and moisture produces the rust. By
changing them to some other ground sometimes it entirely disappears.

Mr. Hawkins: Mrs. Sawyer thinks this would be a remedy, as they require
a circulation of fresh air and keep down moisture. We know this, phlox
should be divided every third year. If you lift some you will find in
the middle a woody dry substance absolutely detrimental to a large,
healthy growing phlox. If you take off the little plants that come at
the outside of this and replant them you will find your flowers will be
much larger the next year. If we leave bunches of phlox in the same
place successive years they become small. If you separate them it will
add vigor to your plant, and the flowers will do better. I would like to
ask what success you have had with growing tritoma, the flame flower?
Have you had any difficulty in raising them?

Mrs. Tillotson: I have one blossom that seemed to take such a long time
to get above the ground I wondered what was the matter with it.

Mr. Hawkins: Mrs. Gould, can you give us any enlightenment?

Mrs. Gould: I never raised them, I got some bulbs this year. I know you
have to take them up in the winter and store them like gladiolus, and
they do not require very heavy soil.

Mrs. Countryman: Will yucca filamentosa ever blossom in a garden in St.
Paul?

Mrs. Sawyer: It will, but it doesn't always. It does blossom in
Minnesota, but I know that people have a great deal of difficulty
getting blossoms.

Mrs. Countryman: I have five plants growing four years and have never
seen a blossom yet.

Mr. Hawkins: I have had two growing three years, and I never have seen
the color of a blossom yet.

A Member: What kind is that?

Mr. Hawkins: It is the yucca filamentosa. It is an evergreen. It should
throw up a tall stalk with large branches and plenty of white flowers, I
think hundreds of flowers--that is the description. It is a beautiful
thing in the garden anyway.

Mrs. Countryman: I have seen them in blossom in California.

Mr. Richardson: I have see