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young plants every year. The seed sown in June or July 

 can be planted out in October and potted up the autumn 

 of the second year for flowering in pots in the early 

 spring in a greenhouse. They are then good strong 

 plants, and several can be put in one fairly large pot. 

 G. grandis is a stronger and coarser plant. It is far 

 more beautiful for picking if grown in a poor soil and 

 under the shade of bushes or trees. But it is hardly 

 worth growing in a small garden, though it is what I call 

 a friend among plants ; it gives a good deal, and requires 

 so little, and looks cool and beautiful when picked and 

 placed by itself in a large glass bowl fiUed with water. 

 Its tiny rosette-like leaf-growth is also useful, attractive, 

 and ornamental, especially in the autumn. It travels as 

 well as the other Campanulas, only it must be picked in 

 bud. The flowers expand well in water ; so do those of 

 the common Canterbury Bell. 



As a summer luncheon dish this Mayonnaise sou£36 of 

 crab is rather out of the common : — Slightly butter the 

 lining of a souf96-case, pin a buttered band of paper 

 round rather high, and season the eatable part of a crab 

 with pepper, salt, oil, and vinegar ; whip some nice aspic 

 jelly, and put a little in the bottom of the lining. Make 

 a bed of Mayonnaise sauce on the top of the aspic, put in 

 the crab, then some more chopped aspic ; it should be 

 about three inches above the tin lining. Stand it in the 

 ice-box tiU wanted. Put the hning in the case, sprinkle 

 with fried breadcrumbs, and serve with a plate of chopped 

 aspic jelly apart. 



A less complicated luncheon dish is as follows: — 

 Take some ripe tomatoes, equal-sized ; cut a round hole 

 and scoop out a portion of the middle, fill in with cold 

 minced chicken and Mayonnaise sauce, put some aspic in 

 the dish, and serve the tomatoes, on round pieces of fried 

 bread, cold. 



