Blue Flowers 217 
JULY 
BLUE PERENNIALS 
AconITE. Wild, Crimpinc MonxsHoop (Aconitum unciatum). 
3-5 ft. A pale blue variety with a slender weak stem inclined to climb. 
Flowers borne in loose panicles. Give a rich moist soil, sun and a sup- 
port. Propagated by division of the root. With me this variety does 
not bloom until early September because the tips are eaten off, prob- 
ably by grasshoppers, just as they are beginning to bud, but continues 
until hard frosts. 
AconitE (A. Storkianum). 3-4 ft. A rich blue variety. 
ADENOPHORA POTANINI. 2 ft. A plant bearing slender spikes of 
light-blue bell-shaped flowers resembling Campanula. Give a rich, 
light soil in a sunny dry situation. Do not disturb when established. 
Plant seeds as soon as ripe, or divide the roots. July and August. 
AncuHusa ItTatica var. Dropmore. 3-4ft. A rich gentian blue variety 
with prolonged bloom. Propagated by seed. See A. Blue Per. May. 
Baptista, Fatse Inpico (B. australis). 3 ft. A vigorous plant 
bearing racemes of large purplish-blue pea-shaped flowers; rather a 
shy bloomer. Grows in any good soil; give sun; divide the root to in- 
crease the stock. 
BELLFLOWER. Japanese, see Platycodon. 
CauimeErIs. Cut-leaved (Calimeris incisa also known as Aster in- 
cisa). 1-2ft. An early variety of pale purple aster-like flower; bloom 
of long duration. Rich soil, sun. Propagate by seed or division. 
CANTERBURY BELL (Campanula medium). 2 ft. Both double and 
single varieties in deep blue, pink and white. For culture see Canter- 
bury Bell, White Per., July. 
CATANANCHE, BLuE Succory (C. c@rulea). 2 ft. A slender plant 
bearing pale-blue daisy-shaped solitary flowers, 2 in. across, on long 
stems. It grows best in poor gravelly soil; also a white variety. Propa- 
gate by seeds. 
CATANANCHE (C. bicolor). A blue and white variety of the above, 
quoted by some as a perennial, others call it a biennial; culture the 
same as above. 
Crematis (C. Jackmanni). A hybrid derived from C. languidosa 
of China and C. viticella from Europe. 4-10 ft. A desirable climber 
bearing large, handsome deep-blue, pale-blue or white flowers. Though 
