THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



posts of honor were hereditary in one 

 family, and handed down from father to 

 son. It is not only on the heaths and 

 moorlands that this most stately and 

 beautiful of herbaceous plants is found, 

 but in Scotland and some parts of Eng- 

 land many a hillside, and dry sandy 



{rarely white) companulate flowers mark- 

 ed inside with eye-like spots. The 

 flowers are in shape like the finger of a 

 glove, hence the name, and hang on one 

 side of the stem. It is found distributed 

 very widely in Britain from Lands End 

 to the Orkney Islands and also in West- 



FiG. 1458,— Digitalis purpurea ( Foxjlove). 

 As growing in the garden, Wentworth S., June, 1897, from self-sown seed. 



bank, or moorland margin, is made gay 

 with the large purple flowers of the Digi- 

 talis. It belongs botanically to the 

 order Scrophulariacese. In Britain, its 

 native country, it grows to the height of 

 from 2 to 4 feet perfectly upright, bear- 

 ing from 50 to 100 beautiful purple 



em and Central Europe where there are 

 found also two other species ; D. lutea 

 and D. grandiflora. 



The digitalis had from early times a 

 great reputation as a medical plant, 

 being applied externally to ulcers and 

 scrofulous tumors, and taken internally 



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