26 Remarks upon the Campanula, or Bell-Flower. 



They were magnificent specimens. One variety has white flowers. Plants 

 from seed sown in the spring should be taken up and potted in October, if 

 for the greenhouse. This and many other species of campanula have fleshy 

 roots, and are readily propagated from cuttings of the root. A writer says, 

 " The roots should be taken up as soon as they have done flowering, and 

 cut into as many pieces as plants are wanted. Fill a medium-sized pot half 

 full of mould, then put in five or six pieces ; and afterwards fill the pot 

 with mould, and then place them in the greenhouse. If some of the larger 

 pieces of the root are selected, and placed upon any slight heat, they will 

 bloom finely the following spring, the plants making their appearance 

 through the mould in two or three weeks ; but if placed in the greenhouse 

 or frame without heat, and potted in the spring, they will not bloom until 

 the spring following. The best plants, undoubtedly, are those raised from 

 seed." Another writer says, " This plant, when grown to a degree of vigor 

 of which it is capable, by a rich soil, and plenty of pot-room, with one or more 

 shiftings into larger as required, I find to grow nine feet high, with numer- 

 ous subordinate spikes, and, during some months at the end of summer, to 

 make one of the most showy plants in cultivation. When grown in pots, 

 it forms one of the most ornamental plants for the greenhouse-room, or to 

 be placed in a vase on the lawn or in the flower-garden, or if grown in 

 the open border in a deep and rich soil : it merits a place in all. I have 

 found, that, by placing one of the blue-flowering kinds in a shady place in 

 the greenhouse or room, the flowers become paler, and of a most beautiful 

 French lilac-color, most strikingly handsome." This campanula was for- 

 merly a great favorite in England ; but its popularity has long since passed 

 away, to give place to other more fashionable flowers, which have, in their 

 turn, also been succeeded by other rivals more beautiful. But, in Holland, 

 it is said that the pyramidal bell-flower is still in fashion with that old- 

 fashioned people. 



