THE 

 CANTEKBUBY BELL. 



Campanula medium. 



AXTERBURY BELLS are not 



so loud in their tone as might 

 be imagined by people who are 

 not bookish. How easy it would 

 be to say that this common 

 flower is figured and described 

 in all the books, and to one 

 who had so committed himself, 

 how terrible would be the shock 

 of a rejoinder to this effect 

 that it is neither figured nor 

 described in any of the books. 

 Such a rejoinder would, of 

 course, be a trifle too daring ; 

 but it is a fact, and one of . 

 immense interest to the writer 

 of this, that this very familiar 

 flower has been so rarely figured 

 or described that it will require 



some searching to discover any literary recognition of it. 

 But the fact is a key to what we may for convenience 

 term one of the grievances of an important section of the 

 flowery world. The Canterbury bell is a biennial, and 



