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cific name is given, and linear entire cauline ones, with, 

 drooping, solitary, fine blue flowers ; those of the English, 

 plants being rather the largest. In flower, in July; a 

 perennial one to one and a half foot high. It is known 

 by the name of Hare-bell in England also, and Sir Walter 

 Scott speaks of it by that title ; 



" What though no rule of courtly grace 

 To measure'! mood had trained her pace? 

 A foot more light, a step more true. 

 Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed Ihe dew ; 

 E'en the .slight Hare-bell raised its head 

 Elastic from her airy tread." Lady of the Lake. 



C. Lortfi, Lore's Bell-flower. A hardy annual, 

 of considerable beauty, introduced in 1825, from Mount 

 Baldo. It is of easy culture, very hardy, produc- 

 ing seed very abundantly ; it grows about nine inches 

 high, flowering freely. Some of the blossoms are of a 

 fine purple-blue color, and others of a pure white. Each 

 flower is two inches and upwards across. When the 

 plant is cultivated in masses, the flowers are very showy 

 and ornamental, and continue in bloom a long time. C. 

 pentagonia, or five-angled, is another annual with blue or 

 purple flowers, is also very pretty; from Turkey, one 

 foot high. ^ 



C. medium, Canterbury Bells. This species, with 

 its varieties, is one of our oldest ornamental plants, 

 it having for a long time been cultivated in our gardens ; 

 it is, nevertheless, a showy plant, and will doubtless al- 

 ways be retained as a prominent ornament of the border. 

 The varieties are rose, blue, and white, double and single. 

 The double varieties, however, are much inferior to the 

 single ones, and will be cultivated only for their oddity. 

 Being biennial, it will be necessary to sow the seeds every 

 year. The young plants must be transplanted to the 

 place in which they are to flower, in August or Septem- 

 ber, for if deferred until spring the bloom will be greatly 



