Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1884 — Drummond’s Phlox. [ARTICLE]

Drummond’s Phlox.

I In the year 1835 Mr. Drummond, a botanical collector in the service of the Glasgow Botanical Society, while trav- : eling in Texas, discovered a very pretty • species of Phlox, which bears his i mune. It was one of the last plant, i that he sent home, for soon afterward !be visited Cuba and died there. Sir W. Jackson Hcrkes? in naming the speries.remafked that*be did so in order that it might serve as a frequent memento of. its illustrious, but unfor- ! tunate, discoverer. Never were words i more truly spoken, for wherever annual j plants are grown, the different varieties ■ of Drummond's Phlox are found to be • occupying a prominent place: and if ’ the illustrious Drummond had only given us th s single plant, he would well deserve our deepest gratitude tad respect.—Floral World. A plant is found near Damascus, in Syria, which coils and uncoils according lo tile changes iu the weather, indicating any change from twelve to forty-eight hours in advance. It indicates in odvanEe Of mercury, and can be destroyed only by fire. There is ! nothing useful or beneficial that nature l does not provide in the shape of J plants.