94 A GUIDE TO FLORICULTURE. 



CAMPANULA. 



(PERSICIFOLIA.) 



" The blue-bell by the meadow rill 



Is not more fair than thou, 

 With thy downcast and thoughtful eye, 

 Thy pure and gentle brow." 



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This Campanula is a valuable appendage to the flower 

 garden as well as the parlor, and is well known as the 

 " Peach-Leaved Sell/lower" and what makes it more desir- 

 able is, it will stand out of doors, if in the ground, all the 

 winter, being perfectly hardy. The stem grows straight, 

 about eighteen inches high; when in the open ground 

 strong plants will attain two feet. This plant flowers in a 

 thin spike of one and two together, on a long peduncle 

 which has two stipules at the base. The corolla large and 

 broad, bell shape, deep blue ; the segment short and acu- 

 minate. The leaves similar to the peach, only more ser- 

 rated. This perennial is a native of Sweden, and has been 

 in cultivation in Europe ever since 1596. There are two 

 other varieties, blue and white ; the latter more double than 

 the former, which has not been cultivated over sixty years. 



These plants require a rich sandy loam, and are increased 

 by dividing the roots in the fall. This Campanula, with 

 good treatment, will flower nearly all the summer, and if 

 kept in the shade the flowers will last much longer. Every 

 lady should be furnished with this plant, it being ornamen- 

 tal, of easy culture, and moreover, being evergreen, their ap- 

 pearance is always interesting in the parlor as well as the 

 flower garden. 



