ON FOXGLOVES 175 



Little skill is called for in raising Foxgloves from 

 seed. It may be sown on a prepared seed-bed, the 

 surface of which has been made quite fine, in May. The 

 seedlings may be thinned when they become crowded, 

 and if they again interfere with each other, may be set 

 out a few inches apart in a spare plot. They may be 

 transplanted to their flowering quarters in autumn. It 

 is a good plan to treat them as biennials, like Wallflowers 

 and Canterbury Bells, in spite of their nominally perennial 

 character, because they are apt to die off after flowering, 

 and the flowers of self-sown seedlings degenerate. 



