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natural vegetation is not of a rank kind. Flowers in June and 

 two succeeding months. Native of central and southern 

 Europe. 



Platycodon grandiflorum, syn. Campanula grandiflora. 

 — This handsome plant grows in straggling, weak fashion, 

 about I foot high. The leaves are narrow, egg-shaped, slightly 

 glaucous, and minutely toothed. The flowers, deep blue, are 

 very large, open, bell-shaped, in the way of Campanula carpa- 

 tica, in spare terminal racemes. They appear in July and Au- 

 gust. Native of Dahuria. There are two handsome white 

 varieties, the one single, the other semi-double, but both rare, 

 though very desirable plants. 



P. chinense, syn. P. homalanthinum. — This does not difler 

 materially from the last. The plant has broader leaves of the 

 same form, and is in every way more luxuriant. The flowers 

 are of the same form, and about the same colour, and appear 

 about the same time. Both are excellent showy border-plants, 

 and in the north are looked upon as doubtfully hardy : they 

 resist any degree of cold, however, that they are likely to be 

 subjected to in any part of the kingdom, but cannot endure the 

 combined influences of cold and wet. If, therefore, the soil is 

 wet and heavy, it is advisable to lift a few roots before winter 

 sets in, and store them in any cold dry place, such as a cold 

 frame or peach-house border; or by putting a hand-glass over the 

 patches, they need not be lifted from their permanent positions. 

 Where the soil is light and well drained, there is no necessity 

 for lifting the roots ; but a small mound of coal-ashes placed 

 over them will be beneficial in protecting the crowns from the 

 possibility of harm. They delight most in a sunny warm spot, 

 and a little peat in the soil is very beneficial. The roots are 

 fleshy, and the plants are increased by division of these. 



Symphiandra is a genus of CampaiiidacecB, consisting, so far 

 as is at present known, of only one species. It is simply a 

 peculiar Ca??ipa?iula, and was separated from that genus on the 

 ground of the anthers adhering together somewhat in the man- 

 ner of the Composites. The only species, S. pcjidida, syn. 

 Campamda pendula^ is a native of the Caucasus. It is a choice 

 and distinct plant, growing i or i}^ foot high, with erect 

 stems terminating in rather spare spikes of drooping cream- 

 coloured flowers, large and campanulate, and appearing in June 

 and July. It is regarded as being difficult to keep, and by 

 some on this account it has been set down as a biennial, but it 

 is not so. It is, however, very impatient of full exposure to the 

 sun in light dry soils, and delights in a cool, somewhat shady 

 situation, as on the north side of rockwork or a bed of shrubs. 



