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Califomicum. — A very robust variety, attaining a heiglit of 

 from two to three feet, and blooming in September. The 

 flowers are pale blue, veined with purple. 



Japordca. — The flowers are deep blue. It grows about 

 eighteen inches high, and blossoms in August. 



Napellus. — ^Flowers in June, which are a light azure, tipped 

 with yeUow. Grows eighteen inches. 



Oriental. — ^About eighteen inches in height, flowers light 

 cream-colored, tipped with yellow, appearing in July. 



Versicolor. — ^Flowers blue and white, appearing in July and 

 August, stalks eighte.en inches. 



Aquilegia. — The Columbine. — This is an old and favorite 

 flower, fiouiishing in any garden, perfectly hardy, and multiplied 

 into an indefinite number of varieties, bearing single and double 

 flowers of every shade of blue, purple, black, rose-color, red, 

 reddish-brown, striped and variegated. They blossom in June 

 and July, require no special cidture, and are propagated' from 

 seed and by dividing the roots. 



Campanula. — The Bell-flower. — ^There are a number of pretty 

 flowers that belong to this group, some of them perennials, and 

 others lasting only for two years. The Canterbury Bells belong 

 to the biennials, being raised from seed sown in the spring, trans- 

 planted in August Or September to the place where they are to 

 remain, and flowering the following summer. As the plants die 

 after ripening the seed, a continuous supply of these flowering- 

 plants can be had only by sowing seed every year. 



Some of the Campanulas are of very slender, graceful habit, 

 such as the C. EotundifoHa, often known as the HaiebeU. It is 

 of this pretty, delicate plant that Sir Walter Scott is speaking, 

 when he describes the step of the fair Lady of the Lake as being 

 eo light that 



" E'en tlie slight Harebell raised its head 

 ' Elastic from her airy tread." 



Others again are more robust, growing from four to five feet high, 

 and often used, especially by our AngUcaii forefathers, to deco- 



