SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. CflAP. 



of Europe, and blows a yellow flower in June and July. 

 Propagated by sowing seed in a hot-bed, and, when they 

 are fit, transplanting them where they are to remain. 



431. CAMPANULA, the pyramid. Lat. Campanula 

 pyramidalis. Fr. Campanula pyramidale. From Savoy. 

 A perennial plant of great beauty, which grows to about 

 four or five feet in height, with several minor branches, 

 the main one blowing a long spike, or pyramid, of de- 

 licate sky-blue flowers, in the months of July and August. 

 Propagated by seed, and by parting the root. The 

 seed should be sowed in the spring in a bed of fine earth* 

 under a hand-glass, shaded from the strong heat of the 

 sua, and watered now and then with a fine-rosed watering 

 pot. The seed comes up readily if not covered deeply, and, 

 by the fall, the plants will be fit to transplant into a nursery 

 bed, where they should remain until the following spring, 

 when some of them may be thinned out to be planted in 

 the flower-borders, where they may blow the same year ; 

 and the rest, being carefully tilled between, will be One 

 strong plants by the third year, and may all be put out 

 in the same manner, or potted in large wide-topped pots 

 to be brought into the house, where they make a very 

 fine show. By parting the roots after the first year of 

 blowing, you multiply your plants, and each plant that 

 yon take off is the stronger for being severed j but the 

 plants thus used decline every year ; therefore, keep up 

 a succession of plants from the seed, by all means. As to 

 soiU this plant is not very particular, though it likes a 

 good mould ; but it is very particular in its aversion to 

 manure, which is destruction to it. It is one of 

 the most ornamental plants that can be conceived, awl 



