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Few of our hardy border flowers are more pleasing, or of more value as garden 

 ornaments, than the old Canterbury Bell, called Campanula Medium by botanists 

 — a biennial plant, of pyramidal growth, which inhabits Central Europe, and was 

 introduced to our collections nearly three centuries ago, but which still holds its 

 own; and which, whether wo regard the forms with, single or double blossoms, 

 purple, blue, rose or white, of which it gives a rich harvest, stands unrivalled for 

 its beauty. 



The ordinary single form bears flowers of the shape of a broad cleanly-modelled 

 and open bell, and the usual double forms are made up by the crowding into the 

 interior of this bell of certain petaloid out-growths of the floral whorl, producing 

 a flower on the model of that of a double Petunia. The variety we are now describ- 

 ing takes quite a different development. In habit, the plant resembles the well- 

 known old blue or white Canterbury Bell, " but the corolla is much larger, and 

 the calyx in addition is enlarged to nearly 4 inches in diameter, presenting the 

 form of a saucer, and changed from its ordinary green color to the same hue as 

 that of the corolla." The broad bell-shaped corolla of the single flower is per- 

 fectly formed, but instead of the usual small leafy calyx, this organ becomes much 

 enlarged, and takes on a petaloid character ; and it is this which forms the pecu- 

 " '—flower, and adds so much both to its interest and to its beauty. Price 

 • — i 9a cents. 



