PLATYCODON 



(From the Greek platys, broad, and kodon, a bell) 

 Campa7iulacea 



80. Platycodon grandiflorum, var. album {Campanula grandifidra, 

 var. alba; Wahlenhergia grandiflora, var. alba) 



English Names: White balloon flower, White Japanese bellflower. 



EASTERN ASIA JULY THROUGH SEPTEMBER 



IARGE, wide-open, white or bluish white bell-shaped flowers two to 

 -/ three inches across, with curious inflated buds, very freely borne at 

 the tips of close, branching, upright leafy stems forming a bushy plant 

 one to three feet high. 

 Leaves about three inches 

 long, pointed-oval, light 

 green, and handsome, 

 lasting in fair condition 

 until October. One of the 

 very best plants for the 

 herbaceous border on ac- 

 count of its profusion and 

 beauty of bloom, long 

 season, and good habit. 



A perfectly hardy per- 

 ennial of easy culture in 

 well-drained sandy loam, 

 in sun or shade. For cul- 

 tivation see Platycodon 

 grandiflorum, page 347. 



Propagate most easily 

 by seed, though the seed- 

 ling frequently does not 

 come true to the parent 

 in form and color; or, 

 with more difficulty, by 

 division in early spring. 



Var. flore-pleno album 

 (var. japonicum album). 

 Similar to the type ex- 

 cept that the flowers have a double row of petals, one inside the other, 

 forming a ten-pointed star; perhaps not quite so handsome as the type, 



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