. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. PENSTEMON poise and all of the color of violet tricolor pansies; indeed in the South the plant is cultivated as a substitute for the pansy. The foHage is dark-green and abundant; the flowers are terminal and axillary. The calyx is angular and winged. The corolla-tube is open and slightly curved, a soft golden tint at base becoming pale-blue as it expands into a broad border. The upper lobe of the border is pale-blue, the lateral lobes dark violet-blue, and the lower mi
. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. PENSTEMON poise and all of the color of violet tricolor pansies; indeed in the South the plant is cultivated as a substitute for the pansy. The foHage is dark-green and abundant; the flowers are terminal and axillary. The calyx is angular and winged. The corolla-tube is open and slightly curved, a soft golden tint at base becoming pale-blue as it expands into a broad border. The upper lobe of the border is pale-blue, the lateral lobes dark violet-blue, and the lower middle lobe pale-blue above, dark-violet be- low, with a dash of yellow in the middle. Looking directly into the corolla one finds against the glowing golden centre two pale- blue stamens which have clasped hands at the mouth of the tube and hold between them the stigma. The flower is beautiful from whatever point of view it is observed. The plant is tolerant of many conditions, will grow in sun or in shade and as its habit is bushy the plants, if set about eight inches apart, will cover the ground. It is best treated in masses, as we treat pansies. Varieties, of course, are forming: dlba, called White Wings, has pure-white flowers; and grandifidra has very large ones. Did the florists think it worth while, the •plant, doubtless, could be made to vary as much as the Torenia. Torenia Fournibri PENSTEMON. BEARD TONGUE Penstemon digitalis. Pensiemon, Greek for five stamens, all five being present in this genus, whereas related genera have only four; one of the stamens is commonly sterile. Penstemon is a North American genus of perennial herbs, containing about one hundred species. The flowers are tubular, often two-lipped, and borne in showy terminal racemes. The stems of a few species are woody at the base. Penstemon digitalis is native to Pennsylvania and •the Middle West. 411. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been di
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