A GUIDE TO FLORICULTURE. 



kept moist. This shrub is cultivated in the South, in the 

 open ground, and will grow in any garden soil, and flower 

 to great perfection through July and August, bearing a 

 bright pink flower of a singular and pleasing form, of a light 

 texture, much like a piece of crape, hence the name " Crape 

 Myrtle." With those who have not the means of protecting 

 this plant in the open ground, they can pot them in the fall 

 and place them in the cellar^ being deciduous do not feel 

 the removal. If cultivated in a pot, the soil should be a 

 rich loam, and must be potted and pruned every spring. 



CANTERBURY BELI. 



(CAMPANULA MEDIUM.) 



" Blue Bell ! how gaily art thou drest, 



How sweet and trim art thou, sweet flower ; 

 How silky in thy azure vest, 



How fresh to flaunt at morning's hour." 



Of this variety of herbaceous and deciduous biennial 

 plants there are two varieties of single flowers and two dou- 

 ble, blue and white, fine ornamental border plants. The 

 stem is simple, diverging ; the leaves lanceolate and serrat- 

 ed, sessiles viny, peduncles axillary, three flowered and ter- 

 minal, grows about two feet high, the flowers bell shaped ; 

 the blue is azure, rich in color ; the white extremely pure 

 and chaste. All the varieties have been great favorites 

 from the time first imported from Germany to the present 



