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A LITTLE BOOK OF PERENNIALS 



Campanula — Bellflower, Canterbury Bell, 

 Harebell, Peach Bell, Bluebell 



There is hardly a group of 

 flowers which possess such rare 

 beauty as does the large genus 

 of Campanulas. There are 

 many sorts, some growing 

 2 inches high and some from 

 4 feet to 6 feet high, but all 

 have more or less bell-shaped 

 flowers in lovely colors: white; 

 clear pink, blue, rose, purplish- 

 rose, violet-blue and lavender. 

 All of them are desirable and 

 seem to just fit in their various 

 places from the formal border 

 to the rocky ledges of the 

 woods. Most of them bloom 

 during June and July. The 

 Canterbury Bells {Campanula 

 Medium) and its cup and 

 saucer variety {C. M. caly 

 canthema) are perhaps th- 

 most showy and satisfactore 



Canterbury Bells; glorious large bells of 

 pink, purple and white. A biennial. 



of the whole group The flowers are very large, in lovely whitey 

 pink, blue and deep purple. The stalks of bloom are about 2 feet, 

 taU and they are very efl'ective when planted with the early blooming 

 varieties of Phlox. The Peach Bells (C, persicifolia) grows from 2 feet 

 to 3 feet high and its flowers, in blue or white, are more shaUow 

 than beU-shaped. It has narrow leaves and is very graceful. Of this 

 species, Moerheimei is the best white; some sorts are double. 



The Chimney BeUflower (C. pyramidalis) is the taUest one. It 

 sends up long stalks of porcelain-blue and clear white flowers in August 

 and continues blooming for six weeks. When in fuU bloom, the plant 

 seems to form a perfect pyramid. Of the dwarfer varieties, which are 

 beautiful and useful in rock gardening, the Carpathian HarebeU (C. car- 

 patica) is probably the most popular It grows in dense tufts, not exceed- 

 ing 8 inches in width, and is covered with clear blue flowers borne on 

 wiry stems. The Scotch Harebell, the BluebeU of literature, is the C. 

 rotundifolia. It is an attractive flower having most dainty little bells 



