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for some days until the anthers have discharged 

 their farina, when the mask drops off that the 

 sun may more readily ripen the seed vessels ; 

 but, as fresh flowers continue to open in a regular 

 succession upwards from the month of June to 

 September, the beauty of the plant is continued 

 for a longer period than that of most other tower- 

 ing flowers. 



The variety of Fox-Glove with white flowers 

 is perhaps one of the greatest enliveners to plan- 

 tations of evergreen shrubs that can be placed 

 amongst them, and when planted amongst the 

 common laurel, the effect reminds us of a mag- 

 nified border of Lilies of the Valley. 



The white-blossomed variety of the Digitalis 

 is not permanent, and we presume it was first 

 obtained through the means of cultivation, or an 

 accidental change of soil, which would be atia- 

 logous to it, since we have observed that the 

 seeds of this variety, which we sowed some years 

 back, produced numerous plants, all of which blos- 

 somed with white flowers. From the seed that 

 these plants scattered numerous young plants 

 sprung up, all of which bore flowers of the com- 

 mon red purple colour, but the seeds that had 

 been saved from the white-blossomed plants, and 

 sowed the following year, gave plants with white 

 corollas. Thus it is clear that some seeds, by 



