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Campanula Grandis. 



Art. IV. Campanula Grandis, its cultivation and treatment, 

 with an engravi77g of the plant. By the Editor. 



Few additions to our hardy herbaceous plants have been 

 recently made, than the fine Campanula grandis. Its flowers 

 are of the largest dimensions among this showy tribe, and 

 they are produced in great profusion on stems from one to four 

 feet long. In our Vol. IX. p. 306, is a brief account of it 



among our Floricultural Notices, 

 from Pax. Mag., where it was fig- 

 ured, and from which we copy the 

 vignette {Jig. 22,) now annexed, 

 which gives a beautiful representa- 

 tion of it when well grown. 



In the spring of 1845, we received 

 from England, with many other 

 new things, two fine plants of the 

 grandis. They came in good con- 

 dition, but as it had been repre- 

 sented a half-hardy plant, we took 

 the precaution to put one in a pot, 

 and the other in the open ground. 

 They both grew well, the latter, 

 however, attaining the largest size. 

 In the autumn, it was covered with 

 a few inches of strawy manure, and 

 left to take its chance with other 

 perennials ; this spring, we were 

 very agreeably surprised to find it 

 had stood the winter well, only suf- 

 fering in the loss of its centre shoot, 

 which appeared to have damped 

 ofi". From the base of the plant, 

 ; however, numerous stems soon 

 sprang up, and in June, at least 

 six of them were clothed with its 

 very large deep purplish bluebells, nearly three inches in diam- 

 eter, thus proving it to be, in our climate, a hardy border plant. 



Fi"-. 22. Campanula grandis. 



