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CAMPANULA. 



Campanula speculum. Venus' Looking-glass. An annual 

 border flower, of some beauty, very hardy ; having it once in the 

 ground, it will sow itself; the young plants may be taken up 

 in the spring and planted where to remain, and should be set 

 one foot from each other ; or sow the seed very early in the 

 spring. One foot high, very branching, producing a long suc- 

 cession of blue flowers, which close at the approach of rain, 

 and at evening. Speculum, because the form of the corolla 

 resembles a little round, elegant mirror (speculum) ; whence it 

 is called Venus' Looking-glass. 



Campanula Loreyi. Lorey's Bell-flower. A hardy annual, 

 of easy culture, thriving in almost any kind of soil, sowing 

 itself, so that an abundance of plants are found the following 

 year. It is dwarfish in its habits, and highly ornamental. It 

 has large expanded blossoms, of a deep blue or white, which 

 continue to be produced in succession through the summer 

 and autumn months. 



CANNA. 

 Indian Shot. 



The genus are mostly tropical plants, with elegant foliage 

 from four to eight feet high. 



Canna Indica, or Indian Shot Plant. This is the most 

 common species, and succeeds well as an annual if the plants 

 are started in a hot-bed. If the seeds are .planted in pots, and 

 plunged in the bed when it has its greatest heat, the plants 

 will soon appear ; and, if turned into the ground in June, will 

 make large plants. In the green-house it is a perennial. 



This is desirable, not only for the beauty of its spikes of 



scarlet flowers, but also for its elegant foliage, and particularly 



to the botanist, as it belongs to the small class Monandria, (one 



stamen,) which in this region furnishes but few examples. 



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