CAMPANULA 



(From the Latin campanula, a little bell) 



Campanuldcfo' 



44. Campanula Medium 

 English Names: Canterbury bells, Marian, Mercury's violet. 



S. EUROPE EARLY JUNE TO MID-JULY 



TUBULAR bell-shaped flowers one to two inches long, of blue, purple, 

 pink, or white in a loose-spreading spike, along an erect stem one to 

 four feet high. Leaves rather small and pointed. 



An old garden plant, 

 and probably the best 

 known of the Campa- 

 nulas. Excellent for the 

 herbaceous border and 

 for cutting. 



Not a perennial, but 

 a hardy biennal, flowering 

 the second year from 

 seed sown in the open. 

 It may also be treated 

 as a tender annual, the 

 seed being sown indoors 

 in early spring and the 

 young plants set out in 

 the first half of May. 

 These will then flower 

 well the first year, but are 

 always better the second 

 year. Some protection 

 in winter is necessary. 



The best soil is a rich, 

 well-drained loam,though 

 any garden soil will do. 

 Prefers sun. 



Var. calycdnthema 

 (cup and saucer, hose-in- 

 hose). A double form, in which the sepals have grown together form- 

 ing a saucer similar in color and texture to the corolla, unusually inter- 

 esting and attractive, and more popular though not so graceful as the type. 



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