CLEVER CUSTOMS
On this page you see a picture of the garden foxglove.
The garden foxglove is an English wild flower. It is so striking and beautiful that it was brought across the sea to decorate our gardens.
We can guess that the spots within each bell are the signposts leading to the refreshment room.
The yellow false foxglove (Fig. [228]), which grows wild in our woods in midsummer, is a less brilliant flower than its English cousin, and is without the spots that serve as signposts.
Fig. 228
Our wood and meadow lilies (Figs. [229], [230]) are well fitted to secure bee visitors. Their colors are brilliant enough to catch the eye of the most unobserving of bees in its voyage across the meadow, and their spots vivid enough to lead it at once to the refreshment room.
