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BEAUTIFUL GARDEN FLOWERS. 
almost any soil, but assumes a luxuriant appearance in 
a good loamy one. There are now many splendid 
forms in white, cream, purple, spotted and unspotted, 
the drooping bell-shaped blossoms hanging down in 
close array from stout stems that often attain a height 
of 6 feet. In the varieties called monstrosa and 
gloxinioides, some of the terminal flowers are turned 
upwards and resemble those of a Canterbury Bell in 
appearance. Foxgloves seed freely, and the young 
plants should be pricked out about September in the 
places where they are to blossom the following year. 
DODECATHEON Meadia (. American Cowslip). — A 
handsome North American perennial, about 1 foot high, 
with tufts of oblong obovate leaves, from the centre 
of which springs an erect stalk on the top of which is 
an umbel of beautiful Cyclamen-like flowers, varying 
in colour from rosy purple and lilac to white. The 
petals are reflexed while the anthers and pistil taper 
off; to a fine point. There are many forms of the 
American Cowslip, but they all flourish in a light 
moist soil composed of peat, loam and sand, especially 
in cool and partially shaded parts of the border or 
rockery. Other ornamental species are Clevelandi, 
rich violet blue ; Hendersoni, bright crimson, with a 
conspicuous yellow base ; integrifolium, deep rosy 
crimson flowers in summer ; and Jeffveyanum , purple 
rose ; the two last-named species have produced a 
hybrid called Lemoinei ; and patulum , a distinct yellow 
flowered species. All the kinds may be increased 
from seeds sown in cold frames when ripe, or by 
careful division of the rootstocks in spring. 
DORONICUM ( Leopard's Bane). — These showy 
