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~ Augutt. is indeed flight and frivolous between the Tbroat- 
4 ——— wort and Bellflower, calls this Campanula foliis 
urtice: the Nettle- leaved Bellflower: and many 
follow him. - 
Linn4@vs_ pays no- more regard to the Di- 
{tinction than it deferves. He ranks the Tra- 
chelia of thofe Authors with the Campanula, in 
one Genus ; and he adds as the DiftinGtion of the 
prefent Species, caule angulato, foliis petiolatis, ca- 
lycibus aliatis pedunculis trifidis: fquare ftalked 
Campanula, with Footftalks to the Leaves, with 
edged Cups, and trifid Footftalks to the Flowers. 
The Diftin&tion between Trachelium and Campa- 
nla, in thofe who have made it’ generical,’ is 
only in-the Hairynefs or Smoothnefs of die 
Leaves. eo 
The Student very well knows this is no gene- 
rical Character; and will juftify at firft Sight 
C. Baunine in that Sentiment which Linn aus 
has confirmed. 
This Plant, which is the principal of thofe 
called Throatworts, is of a rough and forbidding 
Afpeé till it blows; but then it immediately 
‘changes the wild Look, and puts on the Afpect 
of a Flower. 
The Root is long, white, efculent, and well 
tafted, and is hung with many Fibres. 
The Stalk is two Foot and a half high, fquare, 
upright, firm, though hollow; ee and of a 
pale green, tinged on the rifing Edges with 
purple. 
The Leaves ftand frequent, and in an alter-- 
nate Order. They are large, rough, and of a 
deep unpleafing green; naturally tinged with 
fomewhat of brown, and often with Sune The 
lower ones have long Footftalks, thofe on the 
upper Part of the Stalk fhorter: all are broad, 
fharp pointed, and fharply indented. 
The Flowers are extreamly numerous and ele- 
gant; they cover all the Tops of the Branches, 
rifing from the Bofoms of the upper Leaves, 
three upon every Footftalk ; the Footftalks being 
divided for that Purpofe by Nature, each into 
three Parts. | 
In the plain and fimple State of the Plant 
they are very large, bell-fhaped, and of a deli- 
cate violet blue: but from Accidents .of Growth 
and Nourifhment, they will vary from this deep 
and perfect blue into many Degrees of pups, 
red, flefh colour, and abfolute white. 
In the Garden they have alfo all thefe Changes, 
but tthe moft glorious Appearance they make 
there is in the double State we have reprefented 
in the annexed Figure. 
In this fpecious Form they are fubject to all 
the Variations of Colour we have named in re- 
gard to the fingle Kind. They will be violet co- | 
loured, pur a crimfon, flefhy and white: in all 
Conditions they are elegant, but in none fo fine. 
as‘in the moft natural State, which is the full and 
fine blue. | 
To find the Clafs and Place of the Plant in 
the Linn @an Syftem, we mutt refer the Student 
to the fimple State of the Flower. The Parts 
OF GARDENING» 579. 
are often irregular and difturbed in the double Augutt. 
Kind. He will find the Cup formed of one Piece; 
divided into five pointed Segments, edged deli- 
cately with firm Hairs, and placed upon the 
Rudiment of the Capfule. 
The Body of the Flower is formed of a fingle 
Petal ; it is large, hollow, and unperforated at 
the Bafe. The Rim is divided into five Seg- 
ments, which naturally expand. — 
In the Bottom of the Hollow are five con- 
vergent Valves; thefe cover the upper Parts of 
the Receptacle, and they are the Nectarium of 
the Flower. 
The Filaments are five, they are very fhort 
and flender, and they rife from the Tops of the 
Valves which form the Nectarium: they are 
terminated by long Buttons of a compreffed 
Form. 
- Thefe fired a ingle long Style which rifes 
from the Rudiment of the Seed-veffel, and is 
terminated by a three- 2 age Head, whole Seg- 
ments turn back. 
The five Filaments. ane Plant to the 
Peniandria of Linn aus, and the fingle Style to 
the Monogynia; the fifth Clafs of that Author, 
and its firft Section. 
Each Flower is followed by a rough Seed- 
vefiel, containing numerous {mall Seeds. 
Culture of this TRaCHELIUM. 
_ We have obferved that the Plant is a Native 
of our own Country: no particular Shelter or 
Defence therefore can be required for it in Gar- 
dens. The great Care mult be to follow Na- 
ture’s Courfe in allowing it a frefh, but not rich 
Soil, and fome Shelter. 3 
The Root is perennial, and the Plant may be 
propagated by parting ic in Autumn: but to raife 
all the Varieties, and fhew them in Perfection, 
as in all other Cafes, the true Method is to begin 
from the Seed. 
This is of abfolute Neceffity:3 in regard ‘to the 
| Generality of the Campanula’s, for thes are only 
biennial Plants. This, if the Seed be not fuf- 
fered to ripen in fo large a Quantity as to exhauft 
the Root, will live many Years, but ’tis never: 
fo fine as the firft Seafon. 
The Seeds muft be fown in the Nurfery, and 
once removed from the Seed-bed before they are : 
| brought into the Garden, 
Let ‘Seeds be faved with Care from double 
Flowers, if they ripen well, as they fometimes’ 
do; and alfo from fome of the fineft of the fingle 
flowered Plants. Let them be well hardened in, 
and out of the Pods; and finally, tied up in 
{mall Parcels, in Paper Bags, and hung in the 
free Air of the Seed Room during Winter. 
In. the Beginning of Ofober let the: following’. 
Compott be prepared: Mix a Load of freth and~ 
dry Pafture Earth with three. Buthels of Pond — 
Mud ; the fame Quantity of Sand, and the fame 
of Chalk: break the Chalk fmall, and mix it 
well with the reft, by turning the Heap once in 
fix Weeks. 
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