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Derbaceous flMants. 



Snapdragon, Antirrhinum rnajus. — This perennial is 

 often crown as an annual for summer beading. There are 

 many beautiful varieties of which some are quite dwarf and 

 compact, forming dense masses of deep green foliage ; leaves 

 oblong or lanceolate, opposite ; flowers large, in terminal 

 racemes, varying in color from pure white to bright crimson 

 and purple. It may be propagated annually from seeds 

 sown in a frame or greenhouse. It forms nice beds and is 

 also very desirable in borders and rockeries. 



Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea. — A very showy plant 

 with simple, erect stems from three to five feet high, 



lanceolate or oblong wrinkled leaves 



tand a long dense raceme of thimble- 

 4 1 like flowers varying in color from 

 H| I purple to pale rose and pure white, 

 '■■$ i -**Bfl 'S the corolla being more or less spotted 

 '^t^'dX'^TO inside. A desirable biennial or peren- 

 v y nial plant for sunny positions, easily 

 J^ ; raised from seeds. Large-flowered 

 ^M^QSV foxglove (D. ambigua) is less tall 



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and has larger, creamy-white flow- 

 ers veined with brown. Both flower 

 in summer, sometimes quite 





late. Thrive in any moder- 

 ately good soil. They are 

 J^MIHHE^^K tine in borders and shrub- 



FIG. 150. FOXGLOVE (DIGITALIS PURPUREA). bd'ieS. 



Monkey-Flower, Mimulus cardinalis. — A handsome 

 riverside plant of an erect, branching habit, with opposite, 

 ovate, stem-clasping leaves and very showy axillary flowers of 



