BELLFLOWER FAMILY 



One of the first Campanulas brought to this country and the 

 only one that may be considered naturalized, as long ago it deserted 

 the garden and went upon the highway. One often meets it along 

 the roadside and in the fields of New England and New York, less 

 often in Pennsylvania and Ohio. 



The hardy crown sends up a tuft of erect, rather stout stems 

 each crowned with a leafy raceme of open violet-blue bells. The 

 plant has not much of grace but a good deal of sturdiness. 



It is perennial and possesses the power of spreading inveterately 

 by the root. 



NARROW-LEAVED BELLFLOWER 



Campdnula persidfblia. 



Native of southern Europe and long in cultivation, so that its garden 

 forms are extremely variable. Mentioned by Gerard in 1596. 



Slem. — Erect, one to three feet high. 



Leaves. — Lanceolate, broad or narrow, thick and smooth. 



Flowers. — Open or deep bell-shaped, violet-blue in erect racemes. 



Calyx. — Five-cleft. 



Corolla. — Broadly bell-shaped, often two inches across. 



Stamens. — Five; filaments broad at base. 



Ovary. — Ovoid; stigmas three-lobed. 



Capsule. — Three-celled. 



A very choice plant which bears many large, cup-shaped flowers 

 ranging upward along tall stems above a tuft of pretty foliage. 



Carpathian Bellflower, Campanula carpdtica, from the Carpa- 

 thian Alps, is a tufted plant about six inches high bearing on 

 slender, one-flowered peduncles an abundance of open, bell-shaped 

 flowers, normally blue. The general effect of the blossom is that 

 of Campanula persicifolia, but the plant's size fits it for the border 

 or rockery, especially as it blooms continuously during the summer. 



Among additional species offered by the trade are : The Chim- 



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