100 PAMTLTAR FLOWERS OP FIELD AND GARDEN. 



Harebell. 



quite at home on rocky preci- 

 pices, and it would take more 

 than a cyclone to disturb the 

 sure footing of either. I 

 have seen a little plant, eight 

 inches high, bend its wiry 

 stem prone beneath the blast, 

 and yet the half dozen flower 

 bells it held were not broken 

 off nor injured. Those of us 

 whose gardens have been vis- 

 ited by the sudden gale which 

 will sometimes precede a 

 thunderstorm know what sad 

 havoc it works among flow- 

 ers which have every appear- 

 ance of strength. But it is 

 the stout oak which falls with 

 a crash in a high wind which 

 only bends the supple reed. 

 The harebell was built to 

 stand the mountain storm. 

 The flower has a beautiful 

 purple color, scarcely ap- 

 proaching blue; this color is 

 so charmingly graduated 

 within the bell that in its 



