. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. THE HARDY PERENNIAL GARDEN. Digitalis, or Foxgloves. The foxgloves, or digitalis, have been fine of late. Tliey are good alike in beds, masses in the border, or on the borders of woodlands. They also look well in the woodlands when they can be seen to advantage. The gloxinia- flowered form, Digitalis purpurea glox- iniseflora, is the most striking one to grow and seed should be started now. D. lanata, with creamy or grayish flow- ers on dense spikes, is now at its best; so is D. ambigua, with yellow flowers marked with brown. Campanulas, or Bellflo
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. THE HARDY PERENNIAL GARDEN. Digitalis, or Foxgloves. The foxgloves, or digitalis, have been fine of late. Tliey are good alike in beds, masses in the border, or on the borders of woodlands. They also look well in the woodlands when they can be seen to advantage. The gloxinia- flowered form, Digitalis purpurea glox- iniseflora, is the most striking one to grow and seed should be started now. D. lanata, with creamy or grayish flow- ers on dense spikes, is now at its best; so is D. ambigua, with yellow flowers marked with brown. Campanulas, or Bellflowers. Of the campanulas the most striking of late have been C. Medium, or Can- terbury bells. The single forms are the best to grow; the doubles are too heav}-. The calycanthema, or cup and saucer varieties, are beautiful and are good for pot culture, but will not stasd up so well in the borders as the true singles. The peach-flowered campanula, C. persicifolia, in several colors, is now in season. Others now blooming are C. rotundifolia, or Scotch blue bell, a good rock plant; C. Trachelium, or Coventry bell; C. glomerata, or clustered bell- flower; and C. Grossekii, dark blue. The little Carpathian bellflower, C. Car- patica, is just commencing to bloom and will persist until October. This is fine for an edging or as a rock plant. Phloxes, Asters and Erigerons. The perennial phloxes already are showing flowers; in fact, the suffruti- cosa varieties, of which Miss Lingard IS the best, have been blooming since the middle of June. The real phlox display, however, will come later in the month and through August. One or two of the dwarf asters have been good of late. The best are A. alpinus Himalaicus, deep blue; A. sub- Cffiruleus, bluish violet; A. speciosus, aeep blue, and A. speciosus albus, pure White. These are good for the rock garden as well as for the border. Erigeron grandiflorus elatior, with 'arge, solitary, bluish lilac flowers, °"e for cutting; E. speciosus, pa
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