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Mr. Grant has introduced more than 50 cultivars: roses, bluebonnets, mums, phloxes, salvias, verbenas.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2018

Mrs. Pope offered me young sunflower seedlings only a week or two ago, and Miss Babbs is always offering me phloxes, and wallflowers, and things.

From Anxious Audrey by Quiller-Couch, Mabel

The herbaceous border grows luxuriant phloxes and delphiniums, but the background of glass houses sets a wrong light about it.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh

Miss Lingard in June Offshoots of these hardy phloxes may be usually obtained by exchange from some friend, as they increase rapidly.

From The Garden, You, and I by Wright, Mabel Osgood

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.

From The Story of Bessie Costrell by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.