The Foxglove.
A Garden Corner.
TT CANNOT be said that the foxglove is popular in the garden. This may be owing to its free seeding making it something of a nuisance, but as an occupant of the wild garden and for the back row under trees it has undoubted value. The common purple form is a native of Britain and associated with Canterbury Bells and Periwinkle on an area of drywaste ground under trees will call up many recollections of woodland scenes in the Old Country. For those who want to grow it thus or on the flower border there are the newer Gloxinia flowered hybrids, which give a good range of spotted and marbled flowers to life it out of the ruck of sameness. With this flower, as with the gorse and broom, it is a matter of familiarity breeding contempt, for all three are eminently beautiful in their own way. This foxglove Digitalis purpurea is of value as a medicinal herb. The name is from the Latin digitus, a finger, from the likeness of the flower to a finger-stall. T. D. LENNIE.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20482, 7 December 1934, Page 10
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184The Foxglove. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20482, 7 December 1934, Page 10
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