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themselves so freely that we are saved this piece of work. 

 We entertain here two other Foxgloves Digitalis 

 ambigua (syn. grandiflord) , and D. orientalist Both are 

 yellow-flowered the former growing about two feet tall 

 and producing its belled flower spikes off and on all 

 summer and autumn, and the latter, taller with smaller 

 flowers. 



In a corner of the garden with some bushes of South- 

 ernwood and white Moss Roses grows an old-fashioned 

 plant called Fraxinella (Dictamnus), sometimes called 

 Burning Bush from the fact, claimed to have been dis- 

 covered by the daughter of Linnaeus, that after night- 

 fall an inflammable vapour comes from the blossoms; 

 but though we have many times experimented, singed 

 fingers have been our only reward and this through 

 holding the matches too long. However, the Fraxinella, 

 when well established, is a very beautiful plant growing 

 into stout clumps with beautiful dark foliage lasting in 

 fine condition the summer through and bearing spikes 

 of white or purplish fringy flowers with a strange odour 

 which the children declare is both "horrid and nice." 

 The plants should not be dug up and divided, but left to 

 themselves will outlast whole generations of mere humans. 



In another part of the garden is a lovely picture where 

 the shell-like bloom of a climbing Rose, Newport Fairy, 

 creates just the right background for a group composed 

 of fleecy Spircea Aruncus, tall purple Campanula lati- 



*These are both perennials. 



