Ifeerbaceous plants* 



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flowers. The best are : The Canterbury bell (<7. medium), 

 stems erect, branching, two or three feet high, with ovate- 

 lanceolate, crenate leaves ; 

 flowers in leafy panicles, 

 large, bell-shaped, blue- 

 purple, or white. One of 

 the best ; flowers in July. 

 Clustered bell-flower. (<7. 

 glomerata), stems simple, 

 one or two feet high ; leaves 

 ovate, upper ones some- 

 what stem-clasping ; flowers 

 in close heads, violet-blue, 

 pale blue, or white, flower- 

 ing all summer. A desir- 

 able plant for naturalizing 

 in glades and open woods, F1Q . 145> _ PALE BELL-FLOWER (CAMPANULA 

 or on grassy banks. Pale LACTIFLORA). 



bell-flower (<7. lactiflora), stems two or more feet high, 

 branched ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, sessile ; flowers in loose 

 racemes, pale blue or white. Nice border plant, forming 

 large tufts and flowering all summer. Chimney bell-flower 

 (C. pyramidalis), stem almost simple, forming many flower- 

 ing branches at the top, about four feet high ; leaves ovate or 

 sometimes cordate, petiolate ; flowers in pyramidal racemes, 

 very numerous, deep blue or white, flowering in June or 

 July. Border plant. Peach-leaved bell-flower (<7. persicce^ 

 folia), stem simple, one foot high or more ; root leaves 

 like the leaves of the peach, stem leaves few, linear-lanceo^ 

 late ; flowers very large, racemose, deep blue to pure white? 



