BELLFLOWER FAMILY 



includes rose and purple in varying tints. The plant belongs to the 

 biennials that amateurs find so unsatisfactory, since to keep 

 biennials up to the standard requires 

 unceasing vigilance. When one bed is 

 blooming a second must be in prepara- 

 tion, and it is easy to forget. The plant 

 will sometimes bloom the third year, 

 but not often satisfactorily. 



The garden varieties now appear in 

 singles, doubles, and semi-doubles, as 

 well as in a curious form known as va- 

 c.:^;iTX::k riety caUcAnthemi, or Cup-and-Saucer. 

 In this the calyx is enlarged and trans- 

 formed, becoming corolla-like in texture and taking on the color 

 of the true corolla. The doubles are of two types; sometimes 

 one to four perfect bells are formed one within another, or the 

 flower bell is filled with petaloids. Sometimes the bell breaks 

 down and the entire blossom becomes petaloid. 



The name Canterbury Bell harks back to the Canterbury 

 Pilgrims who wore on their return from the shrine of St. Thomas 

 a. Becket small leaden images of saints as "signs" of their pil- 

 grimage, and whose horses were also decorated with small bells, 

 not only to announce the pilgrimage performed, but as a charm 

 against accidents upon the return journey. 



RAMPION-LIKE BELLFLOWER. CREEPING BELLFLOWER 



Campdnula rapunculoldes. 



The one Campanula that has become naturalized in this country. 

 Native to central and southern Europe. Perennial. July-September. 



Stem. — Erect, two to four feet high. 



Stem-leaves. — Ovate-lanceolate, pointed and heart-shaped, the lower 

 leaves long-petioled. 



Flowers. — ^Tubular bells, somewhat drooping, violet-blue, five-lobed, 

 single in the axil of bracts, forming long racemes. 

 Stamens. — Five; stigmas three-lobed. 

 Capsule. — Three-celled. 



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