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are the foxglove and Canterbury bells. 
These must be sown each year, because they 
die after flowering. 
The foxgloves, particularly the common 
one, need sowing but once, because each 
fall, if a plant is allowed to go to seed, a 
large number of seedlings will be found 
about the base of the old plant. 
With one exception, the foxgloves grow 
from two to four feet high; the exception is 
the rusty foxglove (Digitalis ferruginea,) 
which grows four to six feet high. The 
flowers are tubular shaped, and are white, 
spotted with purple, or they may be red, 
gray, yellow, or purple, according to the 
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MonKshood or aconite (Aconitum Napellus) one of the 
best tall blue flowers, 3 to 4 feet high. The flowers 
vary to white. The leaves are poisonous and have 
been Known to Kill poultry 
kind grown. The common foxglove is 
Digitalis purpurea. 
The Canterbury bells are very beautiful. 
The most commonly grown is Campanula 
Medium, growing one to four feet high, 
and having large, inflated, bell-shaped flowers 
two inches long, and nearly as much across. 
There are hose-in-hose and cup-and-saucer 
varieties, (var. calycanthema) which come 
fairly true from seed. 
Although a perennial, the Iceland poppy 
(Papaver nudicaule), will give better results 
if treated as a biennial, a new lot being 
started each fall, because the plants winter 
kill badly after a year or two. If sown in the 
