Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1884 — Drummond’s Phlox. [ARTICLE]

Drummond’s Phlox.

In the year 1835 Mr. Drummond, a botanical collector in the service of the Glasgow Botanical Society, while traveling in Texas, discovered a very pretty species of Phlox, which boars his name. It was oue of the last plants that he sent homo, for soon afterward he visited Cuba and died there. ' Sir W. Jackson Horkes, in naming the species, remarked that he did so in order that it might serve as a frequent memento of its illustrious, but unfortunate, discoverer. Never were words more truly spoken, for wherever annual plants are grown, the different varieties of Drummond’s Phlox aro found to be occupying a prominent place; and if the illustrious Drummond had only given n« th's single plant, he would well deseryo our deepest gratitude and i respect. —Floral World. A plant is found near Damascus, in Syria, which coils and uncoils according to the changes in the weather, indicating any change from.twelve to forty-eight hours in advance. It indicates in advance of mercury, and can l)e destroyed only by fire. The e is nothing useful or beneficial that nature does not provide in the shape of plants.