FAVORITE PERENNIALS 



as flowers beloved in olden gardens, are used to enrich 

 and grace the majority of modern ones. The accom- 

 panying illustration (plate liv.) shows them planted 

 en masse, now a fashionable way of treating them, 

 although the photograph was taken in a seaside garden 

 far from the walk of any gay throng. It represents 

 rather a quaint, homely garden much tangled and 

 overrun. Among these plants scarlet poppies lifted 

 their heads, and roses also bloomed. But it was the 

 blueness of the Canterbury bells that cast over all 

 the subtle charm of nature's world. To place in a 

 border and to form high lights throughout a garden, 

 they are ideal flowers. 



Platycodon, or Campanula grandiflorum, the largest 

 bellflower in general use, is a Chinese variety, which 

 opens its shallow bell from a bud inflated like a balloon, 

 showing the deepest blue. It is a striking looking 

 plant, but has not, I think, the charm of the Canterbury 

 bell. It is not a biennial, however, but a hardy peren- 

 nial a strong point in its favor. 



Campanula carpatica, a pretty little variety with 

 heart-shaped leaves and broad, bright blue flowers, 

 is also a hardy perennial, and from the Carpathian 

 Mountains. Because of its low growth, it is useful to 

 plant along edges. At the best it seldom stretches 

 up higher than eight inches. 



There are numbers of other bellflowers, all pretty 

 plants and recognized as among the most satisfactory 

 dwellers of gardens near the sea. 



Few flower lovers do not welcome the day of the 

 hollyhocks. First one large flower has the courage to 



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