THE 
CANTERBURY BELL. 
Campanula medinne, 
- ANTERBURY BELLS are not 
so loud in their tone as might 
be imagined by people who are 
not bookish. How easy it would 
be to say that this common 
flower is figured and deseribed 
in all the books, and to one 
who had so committed himself, 
how terrible would be the shock 
of a rejoinder to this effect— 
that it is neither figured nor 
deseribed in any of the books. 
Such a rejoinder would, of 
course, be a trifle too daring ; 
but it is a facet, and one of 
immense interest to the writer 
of this, that this very familar 
flower has been so rarely figured 
or described that it will require 
some searching to discover any literary recognition of it. 
But the fact isa key to what we may for convenience 
term one of the grievances of an important section of the 
flowery world. The Canterbury bell is a Inennial, and 
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