The Garden Magazine, October, 1920 
97 
Digitalis Lanata 
I F I had to coin a common 
namefor this little-known 
Foxglove, 1 would call it the 
Orchid - flowered Foxglove, 
for its individual flowers 
make me think of some of 
the odd Cypripediums fast- 
ened upside - down to an 
impressive bloom spike. 
By no means showy, it is none the less desirable in the gar- 
den and is a very good cut-flower of distinction and grace. 
The spikes will run from six to eighteen inches in length, and 
the color is hard to describe other than as involving shades 
of fawn and ecru. 
Classed as a perennial or biennial, 1 do not yet definitely know 
its life-habit. Seed sown in 1918 gave little plants that bloomed 
lightly in 1919 and superbly in June of 1920. The foliage is 
different from that of the familiar Digitalis purpurea and its 
varieties, and the plants were hardy through the bad winter of 
1919-20. 1 do not intend to have Breeze Hill Gardens without 
this good Foxglove hereafter. 
One Man’s Roses 
crowning one 1 think. For 
the leaves do not “wet,” 
and the drops on their sur- 
face remain drops — or dia- 
monds, if one wants to de- 
grade the description. At 
such times I thank God for 
life and plants and the love 
of them! 
Who has plants of this 
to sell? I don’t know; I’ve 
tried to make slow nursery- 
men see its beauty, and 1 
know it grows easily from 
hard -wood cuttings. Per- 
haps Farr or Farquhar, or 
some other truly plant- 
loving nurserymen might 
have it — of course under its 
imposing name, Lonicera 
Korolkowi var. floribunda. 
A BUSH AND ACLIMBER WHOSE 
DELICACY OF SHOOT CONVEYS 
A DECEPTIVE IMPRESSION OF 
FRAGILITY 
Lonicera Korolkowi floribunda, or 
Blue- leaved Honeysuckle (upper left- 
hand cut) is, despite its whlowy 
appearance, very aggressive in type 
and quite able to hold its own against 
all comers. Its somewhat bottle-green 
foliage affords welcome variation. 
Evangeline (lower right) is conspicuous 
among climbing Roses for its natural 
grace of growth and its generous 
disposition in the matter of flowering 
I AM impressed with the debt one owes to M. H. Walsh for his 
Climbing Roses. The display this year included Hiawatha, 
with its crimson brilliance set about bright yellow stamens; 
Paradise, deeply pink, each petal crisped enough to give it dis- 
tinction; Evangeline, nearly the same in form but a daintier and 
yet entirely clear pink, and Milky Way, of purest white, with 
abundant yellow stamens. So much for the vigorous, decora- 
tive, and altogether charming single Roses which hang in 
informal profusion from the stakes and wires to which they 
grow. 
The double Roses, more enduring but less charming, include 
Excelsa, undoubtedly the best bright crimson climber of its 
type; Lady Gay, the standard pink Rose which shares honors 
with Dorothy Perkins, the latter distinguishable only by its 
slightly more crisp petals; and the yet little known Mrs. M. H. 
Walsh, pure white, with glossy foliage, abundant flowers, and 
an extraordinarily determined desire to creep rather than to 
climb. Indeed, 1 can think of no more pleasing ground cover 
than the Rose Mrs. M. H. Walsh; yet 1 have without much 
difficulty succeeded in getting it to the top of the eight-foot post 
from which it droops in lovely profusion, and from which also, 
in autumn, its persistent and glossy foliage droops in purple 
beauty. 
There was a time when 1 could not see the importance of hav- 
ing American Pillar and Hiawatha in the same garden, but this 
year, which is a year of Rose brilliance, establishes the worth- 
whileness of both. American Pillar does not have the depth of 
color one finds in Hiawatha, though it does have its own lovely 
qualities of size, habit, and profusion. 
The Walsh Roses, evidently more closely related to R. 
wichuraiana than to R. multiflora, and therefore practically 
free from mildew tendencies, are rampant growers and must 
be given respect when one places them. Like some other 
climbers, they will not do their best for several years after plant- 
ing, and snap judgment on them is unfair. But surely Breeze 
Hill Garden would be far less attractive if Mr. Walsh had 
not worked to success. 
This is the second article in the “IValks and Talks,” a series 
that will be continued from time to time, as occasion and 
interest suggest. 
