| 单词 | foxglove |
| 例句 | Towers of dappled foxglove bells blossomed wherever she walked. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z By midsummer we could not see out the windows for the foxglove and the bachelor’s buttons. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The huge window framed a wild garden of foxgloves and red-hot pokers. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The scrubby vineyards and the crumbling stones become things of no account, for if I wish I can give rein to my imagination, and pick foxgloves and pale campions from a wet, streaking hedge. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z There's a rack of greetings cards showing men dressed like Prince Philip fishing in rivers saying “On Father’s Day” or foxgloves in a cottage garden saying “For My Dearest Grandmother.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Once they found its den, they would use shushrooms to sneak up on the Nightbeast, then flood the den with sleeping tonic and dispatch any cucos that were awake with foxglove blow darts. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z June burst into bloom—daisies, larkspur, meadowsweet and thyme, foxglove and thimbleberry, purple thistle flowers, and yellow whorls of blooming fennel. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lupine and foxglove. Them, they always muddled me. Both tall.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “I added a few extra doses of foxglove this time.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “When you had your first heart attack, I poisoned Matt with foxglove from my garden,” said Celia. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Thorn nodded and pressed the foxglove dart to her lips, shooting it out and landing it right in front of the monster. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “I couldn’t keep on giving Matt foxglove, though. It’s much too dangerous. I needed something that would make him sick, but not too sick. Then someone told me about monarch butterflies.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He is out in the garden, picking a bouquet of foxgloves. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z For what seemed like the two hundredth time, she went over their plan, she touched her pockets to be sure she had her foxglove darts, she recited their combat spells under her breath. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Finally Jacob revealed what he had been searching for this time: foxglove buds, small and round like purple fists. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “We can use poison foxglove or sleeping tonics if I can manage to make it into an aerosol,” said Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z There were high ferns, and elm trees, and foxgloves in abundance, and the moon had set in the sky. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Above are tumbling slopes of bog cotton, bracken and foxgloves. A tour of Orwell’s Jura, where he wrote 1984 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Philippa Craddock, whose client list includes designer Alexander McQueen and British Vogue magazine, will use seasonal blooms from around Windsor to decorate the ceremony venue, including white garden roses, peonies and foxgloves. UK's Harry and Meghan pick fashion favorite for wedding flowers 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Most important, he created a landscape design featuring plants that are deliberately low, so as not to distract from McKim’s architecture, including geraniums, anemones, asters, foxgloves, and viburnum. Manhattan’s New Green Space Was J.P. Morgan’s Side Yard 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z In the Trie Cloister, gentians, larkspur, poppies, foxglove and dianthus are among dozens of flowers rooted in medieval species. In medieval monastery gardens, an uplifting model for something we could all use: Refuge 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z After splitting with Sibs, I beelined for Belvoir Bay and followed a gentle coastal trail festooned with English bluebells and purple foxglove. Blond hedgehogs, and more alluring strangeness of the Channel Islands 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z She looks most frequently to the English countryside — famous for its garden roses, sweet jasmine, foxgloves, lupins, delphiniums and hydrangeas — for inspiration for her dense, bounteous creations. T Black Book: Florists 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Purple and red foxgloves began to fill the empty spaces along the trail. How to travel the world with 2 little kids: Teach them that every step counts 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z In early summer, the winding track down is lined with foxgloves and rare wildflowers. The best secret beaches, pubs and places to stay in the UK 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Those pretty foxgloves, pink as a baby’s cheeks, can cause vomiting, hallucinations, madness. At Alnwick Castle, (don’t) pick your poison in this deadly garden 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Add a breezy backyard kitchen complete with shuttered French doors, handmade tiles, handwoven jute rug, pink foxglove, and . . . swoon. 17 backyard kitchens that make us want to live outside 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Inside, the shop's walls recall the faded grandeur of stately English homes, clad as they are with white plaster panels and acanthus carvings that, up close, are compounded barnacles, feathers and foxgloves. | The Alexander McQueen Men's Store 2012-11-19T19:01:56Z One to look for is a foxglove, a tall plant with clusters of bell-shaped blooms, often in pink or purple. Why do some flowers return each spring? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The east border simmers with hot colors, patches of red dahlias and minarda fading to rudbeckia and yellow foxglove. Public Gardens Turn on the Charm 2011-06-17T01:45:45Z The shot is a close-up of a bee hovering above a foxglove. Picture perfect 2013-01-04T12:14:50Z “I’m trying to grow foxgloves,” Ms. Brashares said, adding, half-wistfully, “I always wanted to be a farmer when I grew up.” Edible Schoolyard’s Kate Brashares Relives Her English Childhood Through a Grill 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The experience has empowered her to consider next year’s growing season, which she hopes will include dahlias, foxglove and amaranth. 'I can leave my tears in the garden.' A tiny flower farm offers a reprieve from cancer 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z The authors established the first stable transformation system to modify foxglove plants for the study of specialised metabolites. Tracking down the formation of cardenolides in plants 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z A staple favourite for a shadier spot in the garden, the much-loved foxglove's floral beauty comes with a dark side. The dangerous plants lurking in plain sight 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Illustration a shows a bee collecting pollen from a bright purple foxglove flower. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Little manila coin envelopes filled with seeds of a dark purple poppy, cobalt blue love-in-a-mist, fragrant sweet peas, ruby orach, rusty foxglove — and yes, Miss Willmott’s “ghost” — make up my garden’s currency. The legend behind the garden skeletons of ‘Miss Willmott’s Ghost’ 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z For example, species of the foxglove plant produce digitalis, a powerful heart medicine, whereas the opium from the poppy is the source of many narcotics. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z However, he did not know that the active ingredients in foxglove leaves had a direct effect on the heart. Tracking down the formation of cardenolides in plants 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z Mr Harris "popped for a walk" on Sunday along a farm track metres from his home with the trust's project manager, Dr Nikki Gammans, who spotted a distinctive bumblebee foraging on a foxglove. Carmarthenshire: Bumblebee seen for the first time in 50 years 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z The cottage borders on the front of the house are now planted with Rembrandt tulips, cosmos Dazzler, cranesbills, crocosmias and foxgloves — “a riot of color and exuberance” for passers-by, she says. At Her Home in Suffolk, Olivia Laing Finds Fresh Inspiration 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Bees and hummingbirds are attracted to the nectar-rich blooms of rusty foxglove. These spires, spikes and skinny plants add dynamic drama to the garden 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Chemical defenses are produced by many animals as well as plants, such as the foxglove which is extremely toxic when eaten. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Clover, daisies, blackberries and foxglove rim the site. Proposed asphalt plant near Cedar River sparks controversy as King County weighs permit 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Their woodlands theme box uses bleeding heart, hosta and columbine; an indoor “jungle box” includes monstera and elephant’s ear; and a “Southern belle” box mixes foxglove, snapdragon, sweet potato vines and dusty miller. Going beyond the traditional window-box garden 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z She cultivated roses, dahlias, hollyhocks and foxgloves; wrote several gardening books as well as a gardening column for the London Evening Standard; and frequently hosted outdoor parties. Felicity Bryan, British literary agent who spearheaded journalism fellowship, dies at 74 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Plant rusty foxglove in partial to full sun, and provide well-drained soil. These spires, spikes and skinny plants add dynamic drama to the garden 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Agatha Christie wrote a murder mystery featuring foxglove, which produces cardiac glycosides. These Butterflies Evolved to Eat Poison. How Could That Have Happened? 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Digoxin, a well-studied medicine used to treat heart failure, is derived from the foxglove plant. Perspective | The health risks of supplements and alternative medicine 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z “It’s a compulsion,” she said, her eyes always on the lookout for the next foxglove or Scotch broom. Battling Scotch broom along Olympic’s Hoh River that threatens fish, forests 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z London-based florist Ms Craddock also created the floral displays at the chapel, which was filled with white garden roses, peonies and foxgloves, branches of beech, birch and hornbeam. Royal wedding: Meghan's dress in detail 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Emerging from an evergreen basal rosette, in early summer, rusty foxglove sends up dark maroon stems that grow 3 to 4 feet tall, clothed with glossy narrow foliage. These spires, spikes and skinny plants add dynamic drama to the garden 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z The church will be filled with beech, birch and hornbeam, as well as wild flowers, white roses, peonies and foxgloves. Harry and Meghan: fusing the traditional and the contemporary 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Roses, peonies and foxgloves also will be in the arrangements. For a prince’s wedding, even the greenery has royal roots 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z The RHS first created a list of deer-resistant garden plants in the 1980s, featuring plants such as delphinium, foxglove and rhubarb. New plant list to help deter garden deer 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z It was the kind of explosive Highland summer day when butterflies jinked out of the steaming greenery and every foxglove, fuchsia and yellow flag iris seemed to have simultaneously burst into flower. This island is not for sale: how Eigg fought back 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Most foxglove species are biennials, meaning that they’ll flower and set seed in the second year. These Are the 10 Best Flowers to Plant This Fall 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z Digitalis, extracted from foxglove plants, is a powerful medicine still in use today as a treatment for certain heart conditions, but not epilepsy. It was all yellow: did digitalis affect the way Van Gogh saw the world? 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z For June, it’s pink, due to the parade of roses, peonies and foxgloves in my East Coast garden. The Expert Way to Arrange Flowers—Inspired by a Paul Klee Painting 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Digitalis — foxglove — is toxic, a staple of murder mysteries. Transcription fails: What you say isn’t always what you get 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z With its long, purpley-pink, bell-shaped flowers, the foxglove — digitalis — is actually quite lovely. How does my garden grow? In a lot of shade and with not a lot of help from me. 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z She is designing a kitchen, covering the decaying cupboards and a salvaged table with artichokes, moss, hanging vines, ferns and a profusion of dahlias, gladiolas and foxglove. A Detroit Florist’s Vision Turns an Abandoned House Into Art 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z A variety of so-called long-tubed flowers, including penstemon, Indian paintbrush, clover, wild indigo, monkshood, bluebell, snapdragon, larkspur, and foxglove, require long-tongued bumblebees for pollination. Warming world has shrunk bee tongues 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The paintings of exotic ferns and foxgloves by an unknown artist were found beneath wallpaper in the Morning Room. Victorian art found under wallpaper at Lews Castle - BBC News 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z A different crimson foxglove plant poked from the cart of Connie Johnson, whose garden grows in Sunset. Herb festival soothes the tensions of modern life 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z This year Ruth planted some foxglove, which is kind of a poor man’s hollyhock. How does my garden grow? In a lot of shade and with not a lot of help from me. 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z The foxglove flower extract at its source was harnessed thousands of years ago as a beautifying agent hailed for its ability to dilate pupils. Common Drug for Irregular Heartbeat Tied to Worse Outcomes 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Digoxin is made from extracts of the foxglove plant, also called digitalis. Heart Medication Digoxin Linked to Higher Risk of Death for Some 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Digoxin is one of the oldest drugs in the cardiovascular arsenal, derived from the foxglove plant and first described in the 18th century by William Withering. Study Offers Little Support for an Old Drug 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Regions of color divide the long rows, the plantings forced into flower: towering blue larkspur and lupines, spikes of pink foxglove, variegated snapdragons. ‘Groundbreakers’ Pays Tribute to Female Landscape Designers 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Later, foxglove was found to contain digitalis, a drug that increases heart contractility. Alternative medicines are popular, but do any of them really work? 2013-11-11T22:44:39Z Even the tales of fairies turn more readily on fear than on the merry 268 pranks with which our northern legends associate the dwellers in the foxglove bells. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z The native D. purpurea, or foxglove, 3 to 5 ft., with its dense racemes of purple flowers, spotted inside, is very showy, but is surpassed by the garden varieties that have been raised. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z In spring primroses grow to enormous sizes, with leaves as large as those of foxgloves; and the foxgloves in their turn decorate the hedges, rearing their tall spikes of magenta-coloured bells in profusion. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z Save us those foxgloves, will you—they are splendid—like savage soldiers drawn up against the hedge—don't cut them down—and those campanulas—bell-flowers, ah, yes! The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Hard by, a towering foxglove leans into space, bearing two joyous sprites. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z Patches of colour here and there relieved the green of the trees, for yonder was a bold bluff, covered with scarlet lichens, and closer to the water were patches of crimson and white foxglove. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z The very air groans with the bitter anathemas the people pronounce upon calomel, antimony, copper, zinc, arsenic, arsenious acid, stramonium, foxglove, belladonna, henbane, nux vomica, opium, morphia, and narcotin. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z The powdered root of white hellebore is said to destroy both this grub and the caterpillars of the gooseberry moth and V-moth; infusion of foxglove, and tobacco-water, are likewise tried by some growers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Or, later on in the season, the tall and stately foxgloves blooming red amidst the greenery of a fern bank? The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Scores of scientists work for the Interior Department on issues involving birds and bees, foxes and foxgloves, and all manner of other species and their habitats. Green Blog: Judge Assails 2 Scientists in Fish-vs.-Water Case 2011-09-21T21:56:21Z Patches of bright crimson here and there where the foxgloves still bloom; patches of purple and yellow where heather and furze are growing. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z The fairies are supposed to be small—"wee folk"—but we must not think of them as tiny creatures who could hide in a foxglove. Ulster Folklore 2011-08-25T02:00:26.683Z In this district also such flowers as herbaceous paeonies, Spanish irises, German irises, Christmas roses, lilies of the valley, chrysanthemums, foxgloves, hollyhocks, wallflowers, carnations, &c., are extensively grown in many market gardens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Here, too, are ferns of many kinds, the dark-green of dwarf-broom, and the crimson of foxglove bells. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z It went pop like a foxglove,” he laughed. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Along this hedge, at present, wallflowers, and scarlet and white and pink-belled foxgloves are blooming. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z In sheltered nooks the foxglove nods, but he, too, is dwarfed, yet seems to win a solid splendour of bells and intensity of tint from his environment. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z And the foxgloves that stand growing by the boy's right hand are painted as honestly as the striped pantaloons that this open-air boy wears. Constable 2011-08-02T02:00:26.593Z From among the brackens that grow beneath, so rank and green, rich crimson foxglove bells are peeping, and a thousand other flowers make this wild bank a thing of beauty. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Now, it was filled with great bunches of the simple pink foxglove. A Butterfly on the Wheel 2011-06-21T02:00:24.683Z Mourn, little harebells, o'er the lea; Ye stately foxgloves fair to see; Ye woodbines hanging bonnilie In scented bowers; Ye roses on your thorny tree, The first o' flowers. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z Where would she be when the foxgloves stood tall here among the bracken? My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z Other species of foxglove with variously coloured flowers have been introduced into Britain from the continent of Europe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z Just one example: Last summer, in my woodland study, I noticed one large bee enter a crimson foxglove bell. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z The foxglove and wild bergamot, yet untouched by the frost, offered their fragrance in unison with his prayers, while bough and leaf which canopied him stirred not, as if unwilling to break the holy silence. The Cave by the Beech Fork A Story of Kentucky?1815 2011-05-07T02:00:28.747Z There were a few wild flowers, even in December—a belated foxglove, a clump of ragwort, a blue harebell, or a stray specimen of buttercup, campion, herb robert, yarrow, thistle, and actually a strawberry blossom. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z The graceful beech trees far away, with their undergrowth of bracken and foxgloves gleaming in the sun, recalled to her that Gaston was waiting in their midst for her message to Le Monarque. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z The foxglove, probably from folks’-glove, that is fairies’ glove, is known by a great variety of popular names in Britain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z Various preparations from the foxglove receive this name, and are used in medicine, principally in cases of heart disease. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z On the way down she had pulled three stalks of the foxglove bell, and stuck them jauntily in her hat, their long swan-like necks drooping over her sunny face. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z In a little while all the hedge within their reach was stripped of its simple charms—its bluebells, its pink foxgloves, its very few wild roses. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z And then a dado of tall bracken fantastic in shape and almost weird in outline, through which there peeped here and there, with insolent luxuriance, clumps of purple and snow-white foxgloves. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z Other species of foxglove or Digitalis although found in botanical collections are not generally grown. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z She paints foxgloves in fresco and makes little sketches � la Ruskin in the tiniest of books—chiefly of pollard willows, which she declares are the most beautiful things in nature. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z And one or two were immediately intertwined with the foxgloves in the hat. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z Then, because the country people were rough and clumsy in their talk, the name was shortened into ‘foxgloves,’ the name that everyone uses now.” Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home The Story of His Life 2011-03-01T03:00:47.317Z "The foxglove blooms centripetally," is cold and colorless, however interesting it may be as technical fact, The fox-gloves drop from throat to top, A daily lesser bell quivers with emotional associations. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z The plants include hydrangea, rhododendron, azalea, foxglove, holly and yew. F.Y.I.: Questions About New York 2010-09-03T23:32:00Z When your foxglove plants are large enough to transplant, make long trenches in the vegetable garden, with manure at the bottom and four inches of soil on top, and set in the plants. The Idyl of Twin Fires Personatæ, with an irregular corolla, of one piece, resembling an antique mask; as the foxglove. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History There none speaks of ‘mine’ or ‘thine’—white are the teeth and black the brows; eyes flash with many-coloured lights, and the hue of the foxglove is on every cheek. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race The drive was a mere rutted cart-track; hemlock, foxgloves, purple knapweed, blue scabious and tall, thin-stemmed buttercups grew along the tangled hedges, and the blackberry flowers patterned the brambles with pearliness. Beggars on Horseback Does not every child know that fairies love thyme and foxgloves and the lavish warm scent of the old cabbage rose? The Old English Herbals Indeed, the June morning was beautiful, and the foxgloves ringing the white dial post above the fresh green of our lawn had an indescribable air of delicate stateliness in the sun. The Idyl of Twin Fires A moment or two later he came up the narrow path, frowning at Macheson over the low hedge of foxgloves and cottage roses, and barely returning his courteous greeting. The Missioner Here the bracken grew waist-high, and you might see as many foxgloves in ten minutes as you would find in London in ten years. The New Gulliver and Other Stories The ferns grew taller every day, and foxgloves waved right down to the water's edge. Carnival Along the narrow lane he trod, tall foxgloves and variegated ferns grew luxuriantly, imparting a half-shade to a scene usually desolate and bare; and Layton lingered along it as though its calm seclusion soothed him. One Of Them The tall pink foxglove bowed his head, The violets curtsied and went to bed; And good little Lucy tied up her hair, And said, on her knees, her favorite prayer. The Bible Story Digitalis is produced from foxgloves; menthol, from peppermint; opium, from a species of poppy; linseed oil, from flaxseed; laxatives, from iris and rhubarb; and castor oil, from the castor bean. Area Handbook for Bulgaria The earliest known descriptions of the foxglove are those given by Leonhard Fuchs and Tragus about the middle of the 16th century, but its virtues were doubtless known to herbalists at a much remoter period. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Jenny fell backwards into the ferns and foxgloves and withered bluebells. Carnival Lethierry allowed her to soil her fingers a little in gardening, and even in some kind of household duties: she watered her beds of pink hollyhocks, purple foxgloves, perennial phloxes, and scarlet herb bennets. Toilers of the Sea Low bent the golden saxifrage; Its yellow bells like bangles The foxglove fluttered. Days and Dreams Poems Mourn little harebells o'er the lee; Ye stately foxgloves fair to see; Ye woodbines hanging bonnilie, In scented bow'rs; Ye roses on your thorny tree. Language of Flowers She climbs the bank, and gazes with an ever-growing longing at the cool shade in the forbidden land, at the tall, stately trees, and the foxgloves nodding drowsily. Rossmoyne They scrambled down into Crickabella, slipping on the pulpy leaves of withered bluebells, stumbling over clumps of fern and drenching themselves in the foxgloves, whose woolly leaves held the dripping fog. Carnival These were the foxgloves, and the balsams popped like tiny pistols, and from the tall mosses came sudden explosions and the scattering of illuminated spores. Fairy Tales from the German Forests But however his sympathy with his old feelings might affect his liking for the foxgloves, the very truth was that he scorned all flowers together. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 What is the treatment when an over-dose of deadly nightshade, monkshood, foxglove, bittersweet, gamboge, lobelia, bloodroot, tobacco, &c., is taken? A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) Huge bluebells; purple, long-stemmed foxgloves; a whole forest full of wild blooms brimming over with heady sap. Letters from my Windmill Now was the time when she could wear foxglove blooms on every finger. Carnival All at once, the little old man stopped short, and pointed with his stick at a beautiful spray of foxglove. Funny Little Socks Being the Fourth Book The trees, now in full leaf, cast rich shadows over the landscape, the wild roses were in bloom on the hedgerows, and tall foxgloves stood like crimson sentinels at the margins of the woods. The Manor House School Pandora, her hands and face wet with dew, suddenly saw the daylight darken at the entrance of her foxglove cave. Oswald Bastable and Others He is an accurate observer, and he takes Bryant to task for giving an odor to the yellow violet, and Coleridge for making a lark perch on the stalk of a foxglove. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 Elinor saw a bee burrowing deep in the waxen trumpet of a foxglove, as if taking shelter, as she walked quickly past. The Marriage of Elinor And there were the foxglove seeds still clinging. A Bookful of Girls In the bracken wild roses rioted in the richest profusion; the foxglove blazed like pillars of fire through the shadowy underwood and the woodbine flaunted its tall head proudly among the leaves. In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls So she looked about for a place to rest in, and saw near her the cool pink cave of a foxglove flower. Oswald Bastable and Others Vomits greatly increase the absorption from the cellular membrane, as squill, and foxglove. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Behind, before, in the branches of the trees, amongst the blades of grass, creeping under the mushrooms, swinging on the foxgloves, and clinging to the ragged-robin, were the fairies. Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young Amid the tangled grass a great foxglove was swaying to and fro. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man I’ll never forget the little gardens filled with roses and Canterbury bells, and the grain-fields dotted with poppies, and the woods filled with holly and tall pink foxgloves, and the beeches all silvery and green. Virginia of Elk Creek Valley Waterfalls dash through thickets of crimson foxglove, and daturas swing their fragrant bells over the dancing water. Through the Malay Archipelago Four ounces of the fresh leaves of the foxglove should be boiled from two pounds of water to one, and half an ounce of the decoction taken every two hours for four or more doses. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life More than fifty per cent. of common spirits are alcohol, this deadly substance, holding rank with henbane, hemlock, prussic acid, foxglove, poison sumach. Select Temperance Tracts In summer there is a remarkable abundance of ragged-robins by the wayside, with honeysuckles and wild-roses clustering above them in glorious profusion; here and there rises the stately spire of a foxglove. The Cornwall Coast A few belated foxglove stems added to the old-time enchantment of the place. Antony Gray,—Gardener I'm afraid I like the bluebells and foxgloves in our enclosures ever so much better. Vixen, Volume II. The decoction of foxglove should also be mentioned here, as great effusions of urine frequently follow its exhibition. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Beyond towered great elms, but even these did not shut out any of the sun, which reached the foxgloves and violets, transplanted from the moor to the corner of the wall. The 1926 Tatler Last night, at sunset, The foxgloves were like tall altar candles. American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany He was pulling some of her cherished foxgloves through the picket fence, and eagerly devouring their flowery stalks. The Queen's Twin and Other Stories HE foxgloves are the sentinels That guard the fairies' sleep, When twilight comes, and to their beds The wee elves softly creep. Chatterbox, 1906 Tall foxglove spires lit the woodland shadows with rosy gleams. Days Off And Other Digressions On their heads Were wreaths of crimson and of yellow foxglove. Poems Some pieces of honeysuckle twined round the low undergrowth of bushes, and tall foxgloves reared their purple spikes in every small, open glade. The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life The goat lifted his head, and gazed at his enemy with mild interest; he was pasturing now by the roadside, and the foxgloves had proved bitter in his mouth. The Queen's Twin and Other Stories "Your mother is an old turnacrank,—Doctor says so," muttered Peace indignantly, as she tugged at the heavy jar of foxgloves she had arranged with artistic care. At the Little Brown House The forest foxglove is purple, the marguerite Outside is gold and white, Nor can those that pluck either blossom greet The others, day or night. Last Poems Betty wandered out into the wood, and then seating herself on a soft bank surrounded by ferns and foxgloves, she drew Prince to her. Odd In their midst was a stranger to Paul, a girl of eighteen, who marched up and down the room with a half-flowered foxglove in her hand. Despair's Last Journey Around them lay, amid beds of nettles and great dock leaves, and darnel and tangles of briars, and tall foxgloves and deadly nightshade, the broken pillars of a marble temple. A Child's Book of Saints Down the sloping hillside browned with the summer sun strolled Peace one afternoon late in August, gathering the purple foxgloves which waved invitingly in the breeze. At the Little Brown House "Why is it wrong?" said Randal, switching at the tall foxgloves with a stick. The Gold Of Fairnilee Anna burst into the drawing-room, her fair hair falling in confusion over her shoulders, a large bundle of foxgloves in her arms, her cheeks bright with the cool night breeze. Thistle and Rose A Story for Girls Away they went, along level road, through pebbly lane, its banks gorgeous with foxgloves and fragrant with honeysuckles, over wild heath, and then up grassy slopes. Nearly Lost but Dearly Won Some plants will not tolerate it at all; such are rhododendrons, azaleas, foxgloves, spurrey, and broom; wherever you see these growing you may be sure that lime is absent. Lessons on Soil There was prussic acid poisoning from almonds and digitalin poisoning from purple foxglove. The Status Civilization The studio, arranged yesterday with its exhibits of arts and handicrafts, was further decorated with picturesque boughs of larch and spikes of foxgloves. For the Sake of the School Don't confuse the beautiful consent of the cluster in these sprays of heath with the legal strictness of a foxglove,—though that also has its divinity; but of another kind. Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers I furtively glance to see if they have an eye for the foxglove. More Jonathan Papers Many plants like chalk and these may be found in abundance, but some, such as foxgloves, heather, broom or rhododendrons cannot tolerate it at all, and so they will not grow. Lessons on Soil The girls' voices died away in the room; a bee was buzzing in a foxglove bell at her elbow, and some cows went quietly up the lane past the green garden-gate. Chatterbox, 1905. Yorkshire people call this plant the Cowstripling; and in Devonshire, where it is scarcely to be found, because of the red marl, it has come about that the foxglove goes by the name of Cowslip. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure A fieldmouse's nest was nearly as good to him as an eagle's eyrie, an ox-eyed daisy as a white rose, a red hemp-nettle as a foxglove. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Biennials, like the foxglove and canterbury bells, are of course, the difficult children of the garden, because you have to plan not only for next year but for the year after. More Jonathan Papers The same stem as in foxgloves but with darning introduced up the centre. Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor Here and there pale foxglove spires held up their late blossoms like flower spirits in the dim light. Robin The tincture, moreover, is put to a modern use as a heart tonic in place of the foxglove. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure The bulbs may be divided every three years with advantage, and may be usefully planted in lines in front of shrubs, or mixed with other strong-growing flowers, such as alkanets, lupins, and foxgloves. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. When they reached the top, it bore them across a heathy country, rolling over purple heather, and blue harebells, and delicate ferns, and tall foxgloves crowded with bells purple and white. Cross Purposes and The Shadows The sheafs of the foxgloves are worked in crochet stitch edged stem stitch. Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor She could see the wood and the foxglove spires piercing the ferns. Robin The flower, you know, is the one that some call fairy-cap—the Lord between us and harm!—and others call it foxglove. Fairies and Folk of Ireland The flowers are a mixture of white, pink, and purple; and are nearly 2in. long, in general shape resembling the foxglove, but wider at the corolla and a little shorter in the broad tube. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. Coming home with a great grand purple foxglove in his hand, he met some of the missionars returning from their chapel, and amongst the rest Robert Bruce, who stopped and spoke. Alec Forbes of Howglen Even before I ever set foot in England, how I longed to behold my first cowslip, my first foxglove! Post-Prandial Philosophy In districts where the soil is favourable to the foxglove it would not have been noticed, but here, alone and unexpected, it was welcomed. Nature Near London With foxgloves I think it is almost unnecessary to cover them. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 The low hum of foraging bees about the door, the foxglove swaying in summer airs, the hushed peace of the distant hills and nearer forest,—this was no background for violence and death. The Hidden Places Hollyhocks and foxgloves and pinies—I shall never say peony in Brookville—and pansies, sweet williams, lads' love, iris and sweetbrier. An Alabaster Box Round her are scattered flower sprays, honeysuckle, foxglove, a stalk with two large pears, a cluster of grapes, a twig with a butterfly upon it, and a wild-rose spray. English Embroidered Bookbindings Summer Very fine border plants, almost as decorative as foxgloves, showing tints of reds through pink, white, blue and white cream, etc. The Garden, You, and I It was discovered by Sir Robert Schomburgk, who compared the flower to a foxglove, referring especially, perhaps, to the graceful bend of its long pseudo-bulbs, which is almost lost under cultivation. About Orchids A Chat He saw the foxglove swaying in the wind, the red flare of the poppies at his door. The Hidden Places The Chelone Glabra as pressed by me gives no idea of the beautiful dead-white flower, something like a foxglove only more compact. Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books Hope stands upon a rounded hillock, on which are a snail and spray of possible foxglove, and out of which grow a red carnation and another flower. English Embroidered Bookbindings Then, too, the brake patch is a treasury to be drawn from when arranging tall flowers like foxgloves, larkspurs, hollyhocks, and others that have little foliage of their own. The Garden, You, and I Casual observers always find it hard to grasp the fact that orchids are weeds in their native homes, just like foxgloves and dandelions with us. About Orchids A Chat I. An empty sky, a world of heather, Purple of foxglove, yellow of broom: We two among them wading together, Shaking out honey, treading perfume. The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation The tall pink foxglove bowed his head— The violets curtsied and went to bed; And good little Lucy tied up her hair, And said on her knees her favorite prayer. Baby Chatterbox Marigolds are in full bloom all over the forest, and so are foxgloves. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 For dropsy and heart troubles, foxglove, broom tops, and juniper berries, which have reputations "as old as the hills", are "the most reliable medicines in our scientific armoury at the present time". Myths of Babylonia and Assyria The shepherd's rose and the stately foxgloves were more full of color and scent. The Measure of a Man I can call to mind its innumerable beauties, and in fancy saunter once more through the summer woods, among the bracken, the bluebells, and the foxglove. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned I knew the wild rose, bramble, hawthorn, buttercup, poppy, daisy and foxglove, and a very few others equally common.... Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 He lay down among the ferns, looking idly at the foxglove spires above him and turning over in his mind the things he had heard and seen at Domr my. The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France Hence repeated vomits, and cupreous salts, and small doses of squill or foxglove, are so efficacious in this disease. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life The tall pink foxglove bowed his head; The violets curtsied and went to bed; And good little Lucy tied up her hair, And said, on her knees, her favorite prayer. The Beacon Second Reader Jasper Penny caught again the remembered, oppressive odour of foxglove, the aromatic reek of brandy and oranges; one, in its implications, as sterile as the other. The Three Black Pennys A Novel There is no "mine" or "thine" there; white are teeth, and black are eyebrows, and cheeks are the hue of the foxglove, and eyes the hue of blackbirds' eggs.... The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' When she laid aside her mantle her arms came through the armholes of her tunic, white as the snow of a single night, and her cheeks were ruddy as the foxglove. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland He took the foxglove in such quantity as vomited him, and induced sickness for two days; but procured no flow of urine, or diminution of his swelling; but was thought to leave him considerably weaker. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Prob'bly down there, where the foxgloves and the blackberries have taken root. The Devil's Garden A thin odour of foxglove clung to the memory of his wife. The Three Black Pennys A Novel Your hand that was whiter than the snow of one night, and the colour of the foxglove on your cheek. Three Wonder Plays Each of her two arms was as white as the snow of a single night, and each of her two cheeks of the hue of the foxglove. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Might not the foxglove be serviceable in hydrocephalus internus, in hydrocele, and in white swellings of the joints? Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life So, the extremely shortened and compressed flower-heads of the compositae produce comparatively few seeds—one only to each flower; while the foxglove, with its long spike of showy flowers, produces an enormous number. Darwinism (1889) Another bed there is on the right, of gold and silver, it is made without any fault, curtains it has of the colour of the foxglove, hanging on rods of copper. Gods and Fighting Men The bottom was one vast litter of stone and fern, where foxgloves nodded above the masses of debris and wild things made their homes. The Red Redmaynes White as the snow of one night were the two hands, soft and even, and red as foxglove were the two clear-beautiful cheeks. The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes In the second bed he sowed foxglove, pansy and stock. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Roses which had degenerated into little better than wild ones, showed late red and pink blooms, honeysuckle and columbines flowered, and foxgloves raised their graceful heads. Halcyone Someone else would contend that the essence of a weed was its troublesomeness, but Socrates would counter this by asking them whether horseradish was not a far more troublesome thing in a garden than foxgloves. The Pleasures of Ignorance He was an exile from his beloved land of Brittany, and would never see its heather and gorse again, or the flaming foxgloves that redden some of its fields. Sweetapple Cove White as snow was one of his cheeks, the other was red and speckled like foxglove. The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes June will give the bellflower, mullein, bee balm and foxglove. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. They would arrange flowers in the épergne, she suggested—a few sweet williams and mignonette and a foxglove or two. Halcyone I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster, Nor long summer bide so late; And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster, For some things are ill to wait. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. Dead leaves, dead dry stalks of foxgloves and mullens. broken branches, and an arbour with trellised roof, borne down by the weight of the vine. Fated to Be Free The heather, mingling with these furze bushes, was just beginning to bloom, and here and there a tall foxglove towered above the undulating irregular mass of purple and gold. North, South and over the Sea I have mentioned some already for your garden:—Canterbury bell, cornflower and foxglove are biennials. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. I filled my wallet with white stones, I took three foxgloves in my hand, I slung my shoes across my back, And so I went to fairyland. The Wild Knight and Other Poems The foxglove shoots out of the green matted heather, And hangeth her hoods of snow; She was idle, and slept till the sunshiny weather: O, children take long to grow. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. Tall white gladiolas shot up above it, and spires of foxgloves and rockets, while all about them and among the rose-trees, climbed the morning glory and the briony vine. Fated to Be Free A foxglove lifts her bells and bells silent above the singing grass, Still the old marigold her light sprinkles like riches to the poor. Poems New and Old It has a bad habit, this downy false foxglove, of absorbing some of its nourishment from the roots of plants near which it stands. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. I know where the foxglove rears its head, And where the heather tufts are spread; I know where the meadow-sweets exhale, And the white valerians load the gale. The Illustrated London Reading Book An empty sky, a world of heather, Purple of foxglove, yellow of broom; We two among them wading together, Shaking out honey, treading perfume. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. "You said you had a bleeding heart—" "A fine old perennial," exclaimed Ethel Brown, airing her new information. "—and pink candy-tuft for the border and foxgloves for the back; are those old plants or seedlings?" Ethel Morton's Enterprise Yet to the Salt Lake's edges I drive him, I can swear; Up Physcus, up Neæthus' side—he lacks not victual there, With dittany and endive and foxglove for his fare. Theocritus, translated into English Verse You shall come from the east, along the rocky path, as you used to come, between the foxgloves; you shall play at being a god, coming between the stars and the sea. This Is the End But however his sympathy with his old feelings might affect his liking for the foxgloves, the very truth was that he scorned all flowers together. Memories and Portraits I get ten cents a pound for foxglove leaves and five for mullein and from seventy-five to a dollar for flowers of the latter, depending on how well I preserve the colour in drying them. The Harvester The girls, meanwhile, had been planting the seeds of Canterbury bells and foxgloves in flats. Ethel Morton's Enterprise From the lilies above mentioned, from the campanulas, from the foxgloves, and every bell-shaped flower, curious little figures shot up their heads, peeped at me, and drew back. Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women The foxgloves and the gorse I planted on my way. This Is the End I know how the valleys are bright from far, Rocks, meadows, and waters, the wood and the scaur; And how the roadside and the nearest hill The foxglove and heather and harebell fill. The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 "For what do you sell foxglove and mullein?" The Harvester The foxglove flowers start everywhere like long, pink rockets above the light and infinite mass of ferns. Ramuntcho "Not less the bee will range her cells, The furzy prickle fire the dells, The foxglove cluster dappled bells." The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism It was the colour of a great passion, and against that colour pink foxgloves bowed dramatically upon the fringe of space. This Is the End Along the borders fringed With broad thick edges of box Stood foxgloves and gorgeous poppies And great-eyed hollyhocks. The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 Another hour fell like a foxglove bell from the stalk. The Trespasser And they also, the two who are passing through these paths of foxglove and of fern, participate in this splendor of spring. Ramuntcho Our road has led us higher and higher by dense forests and wild granite parapets, tasselled with fern and foxglove, till we suddenly wheel round upon a little straggling town marvellously placed. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" No passing but the peaceful passing of the lambs disturbed the thistles and the foxgloves. This Is the End She was bled twice in eight days, and several doses of foxglove were administered to her. The Dog It is this piratical tendency which makes transplanting of foxgloves into our gardens so very difficult, even when lifted with plenty of their beloved vegetable mould. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Thus foxglove is not only a dangerous but a "subtle" poison. The Naturalist on the Thames The dark-leaved henbane is in brilliant yellow flower, and the purple foxglove in striking contrast; but the wealth of summer flowers is over. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" A thousand crimson foxgloves, Tall bloody pikes, Stand motionless in the gravel quarry; The wind runs over them. A Study of Poetry One day, while sunning themselves in the grass on the island, one of their number found a bush on which foxgloves grew. Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks Like their relatives the foxgloves, they are difficult to transplant except with a large ball of soil, because it is said they are more or less parasitic, fastening their roots on those of other plants. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Summer seemed to have lingered, and had left poppies, honeysuckle, foxgloves, and other blossoms that were certainly out of season. Monitress Merle We were a month too late for the season of flowers, but the foxglove and the bright pink Epilobium still bloomed in great luxuriance. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" A most curious terminal pelory is that of the common foxglove or Digitalis purpurea. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation “My mother wants you all to come up to picnic tea to see the foxgloves in the dell, on Monday, and to bring Mr. Delrio - ” “Oh! thank you.” Modern Broods That it still possesses foliage, proves only petty larceny against it, similar to the foxglove's. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Some polyanthus and foxglove, Sea-pinks, and columbine, Sweet-scented tulips, which I love, Whose beauty has e'en power to move A heart less fond than mine. The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects Hazel was silent also, playing with a foxglove flower. Gone to Earth A similar case is shown by the yellow foxglove or Digitalis parviflora. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Everywhere wild strawberries were flowering on the banks—wild strawberries have been found ripe in January here; everywhere ferns were thickening and extending, foxgloves opening their bells. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies The foxglove shoots out of the green matted heather, And hangeth her hoods of snow; She was idle, and slept till the sunshiny weather: Oh, children take long to grow! De La Salle Fifth Reader "No," said a third, "she is the faery out of the foxglove grown big." The Celtic Twilight They are very fond of the seeds of nettles, and the seeds of the foxglove poison them. The Book of Household Management The foxgloves as a rule have naked flower-stalks, without the two little opposite leafy organs seen in so many other instances. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation On the moist earth there is the print of a hare's pad; here is a foxglove out in flower; and now as the incline rises heather thickens on the slope. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Similarly, also, they had their favourite flowers, one having been the foxglove, nicknamed "witches' bells," from their decorating their fingers with its blossoms; while in some localities the hare-bell is designated the "witches' thimble." The Folk-lore of Plants From the wing of the butterfly I looked involuntarily at the foxglove I had just gathered; inside, the bells were thickly spotted—dots and dustings that might have been transferred to a butterfly's wing. The Open Air Turkeys are particularly fond of the seeds of nettles, whilst the seeds of the foxglove will poison them. The Book of Household Management The common foxglove is one of the best examples. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation With foxglove, and dragon-fly, and yellowing wheat; with green cones of fir, and boom of distant thunder, and all things that say, 'It is summer.' Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies When mending their clothes, the foxglove gives them thimbles; and many other flowers might be added which are equally in request for their various needs. The Folk-lore of Plants Look down into this foxglove bell and you will know that; look long and lovingly at this blue butterfly's underwing, and a feeling will rise to your consciousness. The Open Air I should not have been surprised at any time to have seen those small people peeping out of the wild foxgloves, which are their favorite hiding-places. Memories of Hawthorne The open flower of the foxglove hangs downwards. The Naturalist in Nicaragua The corn was green and tall, the hops looked well, the foxglove was stirring, the delicious atmosphere of summer, sun-laden and scented, filled the deep valleys; a morning of the richest beauty and deepest repose. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Here and there, on the dry bank over which the clematis projected like an eave, there stood tall campanulas, their blue bells as large as the fingerstall of a foxglove. The Life of the Fields He lay down among the ferns, looking idly at the foxglove spires above him and turning over in his mind the things he had heard and seen at Domremy. The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales Brangwyn's clever treatment of zoölogical and botanical detail is well shown in flowers in the foreground, such as foxglove and freesia, and the graceful forms of a pair of pinkish flamingoes. The Art of the Exposition The racemes of purple bells held up by the foxglove are methodically visited by it, commencing at the bottom flower, and ascending step by step to the highest. The Naturalist in Nicaragua Along the cropped hedges red campions flower so thickly as to take the place of green leaves, and by every gateway red foxgloves grow. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies By a copse, two rabbits—the latest up of all those which had sported during the night—stayed till I came near, and then quietly moved in among the ferns and foxgloves. The Life of the Fields Harry wanted them to write down what the foxgloves were like in the wood at the end of summer, standing there in the evening, `Great solemn rows,' he said, `all odd in the dusk. Tales of War Forwards and backwards she cast her mind, as if the roofless cottages, mounds of slag, and cottage gardens overgrown with foxglove and bramble cast shade upon her mind. Jacob's Room The four stamens and the pistil of the foxglove are laid closely against the upper side of the flower. The Naturalist in Nicaragua "Especially when this bank is one forest of foxgloves," said Queen Bee. Henrietta's Wish Or, Domineering On the mounds grew corn marigolds, so brilliantly yellow that they seemed to shine in the sunlight, and on a wall moth-mullein flowered high above the foxgloves. The Life of the Fields All old-timers are represented there, honeysuckle, wormwood, petunias, rosemary, gilias, mignonette, heliotrope and foxgloves. Vignettes of San Francisco A steamer, probably bound for Cardiff, now crosses the horizon, while near at hand one bell of a foxglove swings to and fro with a bumble-bee for clapper. Jacob's Room Sometimes she came home with wild flowers, and had once given a little dinner with foxgloves for a table decoration. In the Wilderness Forty to sixty thousand pounds of foxglove are imported from Europe. Three Acres and Liberty There was a grand vase of foxgloves before the empty grate, and some Marshal Nial roses in a glass on the table. Nuttie's Father A gray rabbit hops among the swaying foxglove and fern tops; the plaintive note of the whippoorwill tells us night will soon be here. See America First The loaded waggons wend their way Across the pasture-lands, and stay Beside the hedge where foxgloves peer; And ricks that shall be fashioned here Will be the sweetest stuff, they say, In Dorset Dear! The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman Arthur pulled another handful of bells off the foxglove. The Gadfly Analysis has shown that the leaves of the wild American foxglove are as good as the European article, the price of which per pound ranges from six to eight cents. Three Acres and Liberty "Is there not a white foxglove on the bank?" Clever Woman of the Family Ruskin adds, among other illustrations, the reference to "foxglove and nightshade" in i. The Lady of the Lake Summer met me in the glade, With a host of fair princesses, Golden iris, foxgloves staid, Sunbeams flecked their gorgeous dresses. The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman Arthur pulled off some blossoms from a drooping foxglove stem and crushed them nervously in his hand. The Gadfly Like their relatives the foxgloves, they are difficult to transplant, because it is said they are more or less parasitic, fastening their roots on those of other plants. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Then it bore nature's own tribute of flowers, for violets, buttercups, daisies and clover blossoms opened there and, later, a spike or so of wild foxglove and a knot of heather. Greyfriars Bobby The roses fauld their silken leaves, The foxglove shuts its bell; The honeysuckle and the birk Spread fragrance through the dell.— The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 I An empty sky, a world of heather, Purple of foxglove, yellow of broom; We two among them wading together, Shaking out honey, treading perfume. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 He broke off and sat tearing the foxglove bells to pieces. The Gadfly It is this piratical tendency which makes transplanting of foxgloves into our gardens so very difficult; even when lifted with plenty of their beloved vegetable mould. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors The foxglove shoots out of the green matted heather Preparing her hoods of snow; She was idle, and slept till the sunshiny weather: Oh! children take long to grow. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 They were green to the top with sheep-grass, and spotted here and there with patches of fern, great stones, and tall withered foxgloves. Robert Falconer The ground was a perfectly beautiful carpet of flowers—wild hyacinths, purple foxgloves, pretty, pale strawberry blossoms all grew there. Dora Thorne A great purple foxglove could do much now—just at this phase of his story, to make him forget—not the human face divine, but the loss of it. Sir Gibbie But if these foxgloves live at others' expense, there are creatures which in turn prey upon them. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors On gossamer nights when the moon is low, And stars in the mist are hiding, Over the hill where the foxgloves grow You may see the fairies riding. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 I think of foxgloves, for it is the moment of their glory. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft The columbines, harebells, and fringed gentians would have been just as cosy and secluded places to live in as the Irish foxgloves, which are simply running over with fairies. Penelope's Irish Experiences Along my path is bugloss blue, The star with fruit in moss; The foxgloves drop from throat to top A daily lesser bell. Poems — Volume 2 It falls out, therefore, only when the bee is in the right position to receive it for export to another foxglove's stigma. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Up towards the top the gorse was less plentiful; there were immense foxgloves, ferns, little marshy tufts where rushes grew, little spots of wet bright green moss. Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger Others, like the gerardias and foxgloves, may even now be detected on the brink of a fall from grace. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Still in my view mile-distant firs appeared, When, under a patched channel-bank enriched With foxglove whose late bells drooped seared, Behold, a family had pitched Their camp, and labouring the low tent upreared. Poems — Volume 2 |
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