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THE GARDENING WORLD 
March 16, 1901. 
being only x ft. high, branching freely, and producing 
large quantities of snowy white flowers, suitable 
alike for garden decoration, for cut flowers, or for 
pot culture, few thiDgs being more acceptable in con¬ 
servatories and greenhouses than a few pots of these 
deliciously scented flowers. For autumn and winter 
flowering the seeds should be sown during the 
present and next month, and treated like Ten-wee 
Stocks or other half hardy subjects, but potting 
them up if wanted for indoor flowering. For next 
spring aDd early summer flowering the seeds should 
be sown in July and August. 
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SPOTTED FOXGLOVES. 
Of all the species of Digitalis in cultivation none 
possess the gorgeous or showy character of our 
native species of Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), the 
wild type of which has purple flowers with crimson 
spots in the tube. Cultivation has done something 
to enlarge the flowers and enrich as well as increase 
the variety of colour; but we think there are yet 
many possibilities in the species if cultivators would 
encourage the development of the same by introduc¬ 
ing Foxgloves in their establishments to a much 
greater extent than at present. The Foxglove in a 
state of nature grows only 2 ft. or 3 ft. in height, but 
that is often due to the poverty of the soil in which 
it is growing.and competition with wild vegetation. By 
sowing seeds thinly in a rich soil and transplanting 
the seedlings early in summer before they get crowded, 
they make broad tufts of foliage the first year, aDd 
run up to 5 ft. or 6 ft. the following season, flawering 
splendidly. 
The accompanying Illustration represents a field 
of spotted Foxgloves, and was placed at our services 
by Messrs. Ed. Webb & Sons, Wordsley, Stour¬ 
bridge. The white ground colour of this fine strain 
shows off the spotting to great advantage. The 
_great variety and size of the spots are features of the 
strain. Gardeners and cultivators generally reed 
not grow a field of them in order to get an effective 
display ; but in many establishments there are 
shrubberies, banks, and nooks in the pleasuie 
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Barr s New East Lothian Stock, Snowdrift. 
pruned after flowering, and when starting into 
growth, repotted, giving ample drainage, aDd using a 
fibrous compost of equal parts peat and loam, with 
plenty of sand intermixed. They should be potted 
very firmly, for loose potting is a frequent mistake in 
the culture of hard-wooded plants. After completing 
their growth, towards the end of the summer plunge 
the plants outside in a sheltered position to get the 
EAST LOTHIAN STOCK SNOWDRIFT. 
The showy character, continuous flowering habit, 
and the delicious fragrance of the flowers of East 
Lothian Stocks, make them favourites with a large 
section of the community. The wild type from 
which they are descended is a native of chalk cliffs 
on the sea coast, so that in gardens the improved 
varieties prove well adapted for dry soils and dry 
Webbs' Spotted Digitalis (Foxglove). 
Webb & Sons 
growth thoroughly ripened. Propagation may be 
effected by cuttings taken from the new growths 
produced after pruning and inserted in sandy peat 
under a bell glass with a good bottom heat.— 
C. F. B. 
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The World’s Coffee Crop is 800,000 tons. 
America takes a third ci it. 
seasons, such as we often experience in the southern 
counties of England. We have seen them flourish¬ 
ing splendidly under such conditions when many 
other subjects were running to seed. Snowdrift is a 
new variety now beiDg sent out as a novelty by 
Messrs. Barr & Sons, Covent Garden, to whom we 
are indebted for the opportunity of illustrating it. 
The variety is characterised by dwarf, busby habit, 
grounds where Foxgloves, but particularly the white 
and spotted ones, could be introduced with great 
advantage to the appearance of the place and the 
enjoyment of the owners. Although they can take 
care of themselves when once planted in shrub¬ 
beries, yet liberal cultivation of some hundreds or 
so for special positions would well repay the trouble 
by reason of the stateliness of tall plants. 
