THE FOXGLOVE AS A BORDER PLANT. 



Z^ pv]^HE common Foxglove, Digitalis 



I purpurea, has long been known in 



_[ our grandmothers' gardens as a 



meritorious, hardy plant, but has 



fallen out of popular favour in the rush and 



and craze for bedding plants. Not only 



his this fine subject been grossly neglected, 



but a multitude of other old time favorites 



many of which are now so improved by the 



European growers that we would scarcely 



recognize them in their new forms. 



There are several greenhouse shrubs 

 which have, in old books of then the best 

 authorities, been classed as Digitalis, are 

 now found under their proper headings, but 

 ihe common garden Foxglove, of which 

 references is made in this article, is a native 

 of Central Europe, and popularly known 

 ns Witch's Fingers. 



In Europe also has the plant been neg- 

 .cted, but it is now coming again into gen- 

 ial culture, and exciting much interest on 









f '\ I 



V\v.. 1 1 17.'{ — . Foxc 1,0 VE. 

 account of the magnificent new forms showing that it is not an exception to 

 which have developed, in the hands of the ordinary in plants when given liberal 

 those making a specialty of the plant, cultivation and careful, intelligent selec- 



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