i8 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



in Russia, the Synap was exported on carts from Crimea to the Siberiar* 

 towns, Perm and Archangel, a journey which occupied from three to four 

 months. Another good quality of the Synap is that it never rots. The 

 tree grows in a pyramidal shape, like the Conifers, yields very large crops 

 annually, and thrives best in moist soil. 



The question may arise. Why do I describe a kind, the origin of which 

 is in Southern Russia, where the temperature is never lower than lo degrees 

 (Rea) ? The Synap has been planted at the north, and has proved its 

 hardiness during the last severe winter, when only the Atonovka, Anis,, 

 Duchess and a few other kinds escaped, while all others were frozen to the 

 roots. Thus, the Synap remained uninjured when the temperature was 20 

 degrees (Rea). It is said, however, the fruit is neither so aromatic nor of 

 so handsome a color at the north. Perhaps so, but this apple, growing 

 equally well at the south or at the north, will prove an excellent variety 

 both in Canada and in the United States. 



I send you scions for testing, both of the Sary and the Kandyl Synap. 



THE FOXGLOVE AS A BORDER PLANT. 



Wilbur F. Lake, Buffalo. 



THE common Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, has long been known in our 

 grandmothers' gardens as a meritorious, hardy plant, but has fallen 

 out of popular favor in the rush and craze for bedding plants. Not 

 only has 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 vmder their 

 proper headings, but the common garden Foxglove, of which reference is 

 made in this article, is a native of Central Europe, and popularly known as 

 Witch's Fingers. 



In Europe also has the plant been neglected, but it is now coming again 

 into general culture, and exciting much interest on account of the magnifi- 

 cent new forms which have developed in the hands of those making a 

 specialty of the plant, showing that it is not an exception to the ordinary 

 in plants when given liberal cultivation and careful, intelligent selection. 

 In the common form we really did not have enough range of color to 

 warrant an extensive planting, and it may be due to this that the plant has 

 been allowed to drop into the background, but now varieties appear having 

 the recommendations of freedom of flowering, robust growth, and individual 

 blooms of great substance, bold form, and wide range of beautiful colors- 



