24 Remarks upon tJic Campanula, or Bell -Flower. 



nual, of dwarf habit, with blue or purple flowers ; not much cultivated ; 

 height, a foot ; introduced from Turkey. 



Campanula media (Canterbury Bell). This species, in all its varieties, is 

 very ornamental, and should find a place in every flower-garden border. 

 It is one of the oldest of our ornamental plants, cultivated and highly es- 

 teenied from Gerarde's time down to the present ; and how long before that 

 time, no one knows. It is a plant of the easiest culture, with large bell- 

 shaped flowers, double and single, of blue, rose or red, purple, and pure 

 white flowers. Like other biennials, it may be sown where it is to remain, 

 any time in June or July, or sown in the spring for transplanting, which I 

 think is the best, as they can be distributed in groups or singly to better 

 advantage about the borders. There is no flower in the garden which 

 makes so grand an appearance, when grown in perfection in rich ground, as 

 the Canterbury Bell. A plant with a stem three or four feet high, with 

 numerous branches loaded wich its graceful drooping bells, is a beautiful 

 sight. To have plants in perfection, they should have ample space, — at 

 least two or three feet apart. It is best to have the plants secured to a 

 neat colored stake ; for, when loaded with flowers, a high wind would en- 

 danger them if not thus protected. 



I am not an admirer of some of the double varieties of flowers, and of 

 the double Canterbury Bell in particular: it may be likened to a nest of 

 tubs or boxes, the outer corolla, or bell, being filled up with smaller bells. 

 It is more curious than beautiful. It is not like double flowers of the Rose 

 or Camellia family, and many others, which are much improved in the 

 double state. 



Campanula pyramidalis (Pyramidal Bell-FIower). This is more a hardy 

 biennial than perennial ; for although the plants will continue a number of 

 years in the open ground with protection, yet, as plants from the old roots 

 lose their vigor, they must be renewed by cuttings, after blooming, or raised 

 from seed, like other biennials, to have it in perfection. The plant is more 

 suitable for the conservatory or greenhouse tiian for out-door culture. It 

 has succeeded well with me from seed sown under glass in March, and 

 transplanted into the flower-garden border in June. It sends up a stem with 

 ordinary cultivation four or five feet high the second season, giving a suc- 

 cession of flowers from July to October; but, as the hot summer sun is 



